British Hollywood movie star, Idris Elba made public his intentions to build a film studio in Ghana during his meeting with the country’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday, 3rd 2023.

During the meeting at the Jubilee House with other dignitaries present, Idris Elba explained the reason behind his intentions is to harness the potential in filmmaking by empowering local and international film producers to produce standard and quality movies in Ghana.

He noted that the lack of facilities in the movie industry has prevented a lot of potential in filmmaking, and pointed out the role of government policies in boosting the film sector in Africa.

He further explained, “we have studied the modules of obviously South Africa’s incredible incentive package, and around Europe, obviously, Greece, Morocco, these are all places where they appreciate the value of the revenue from filmmaking and have brought that policy into play”.

Idris Elba disclosed the production of his movie which pre-production is scheduled for August and the actual photography would start in December. He said he would love to shoot some parts of the movie in Ghana.

He intends for the movie to salvage the lack of facilities situation and be a stepping stone for better things in Ghana’s movie industry. 

“It would be very beneficial for us to show and to make an announcement to the world that Ghana is open for business, here are the steps, the policies are in place and we have actually brought a film to our country, and we going to put our money where our mouth is”, he said to President Nana.

This news comes a week after Idris Elba made known his plans of investing in a major film studio in Tanzania, a part of the initiatives to establish movie studios in West Africa.