Now Bob Marley is to be celebrated on the big screen with a film that will be shot in London and Jamaica this autumn.
Green told the Observer that, in casting Marley, he chose an actor rather than a musician: “I was more interested in his acting.
Kingsley Ben-Adir, a rising star of British film and theatre, whose previous roles include Malcolm X in One Night in Miami, will play Marley in the Paramount movie.
But we want to show every side of Bob, including his toughness, without sugar-coating anything.”