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A tense, psychological thriller, Labute\u2019s \u201cThis is How it Goes\u201d tells the story of a couple who reconnect with an old school acquaintance \u2013 apparently randomly \u2013 and offer to take him in.<\/p>\n
Elba<\/a> starred in a 2005 West End<\/a> production of the play alongside Ben Chaplin<\/a> and Megan Dodds<\/a>, playing the character of Cody<\/a>. He will take on a different (as yet unnamed) role in the screen adaptation.<\/p>\n Further cast have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n Nathaniel Price<\/a> is penning the screenplay for the Apple<\/a> Original Film.<\/p>\n The project also marks a new creative partnership between 22Summers<\/a>, the production company Elba recently co-founded with Diene Petterle<\/a> and Gina Carter<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Idris Elba, who was just at the Venice Film Festival to present Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s \u201cA House of Dynamite,\u201d is set to star in and direct a feature film adaptation of Neil Labute\u2019s \u201cThis is How it Goes\u201d for Apple TV+, Variety can confirm. A tense, psychological thriller, Labute\u2019s \u201cThis is How it Goes\u201d tells the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2014724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Idris-Elba-to-Direct-and-Star-in-Psychological-Thriller-\u2018This.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}