Idris Elba is climbing the steps of Notre Dame.
The actor has signed on to star in, direct, and produce a new film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Netflix, EW has confirmed. Michael Mitnick (The Current War) is writing the as-yet-untitled script, which will be a “modern retelling” of Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel. The story was most famously adapted into the 1996 Disney movie, and it tells the tale of a hunchback named Quasimodo who falls in love with a
