- 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Benedict Cumberbatch, the leading man of the BBC's
"Sherlock," has joined the cast of Steve McQueen's upcoming 12 Years
a Slave, Variety reports. He'll star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael
Fassbender and Paul Dano.
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Based on the 1853 autobiography of Solomon Northrup, 12
Years a Slave tells of Northrup's tragic kidnapping in Washington DC in 1841
where, despite being born a free man, he was forced into slavery at a Louisiana
cotton plantation until his rescue 12 years later.
Cumberbatch can soon been seen on the big screen as the
still-unidentified villain in the still-untitled Star Trek sequel. He'll also
be voicing the dragon, Smaug in Peter Jackson's two part The Hobbit.
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