Director of new Bob Marley movie casts actor with no musical training

I was more interested in his acting,' says Reinaldo Marcus Green in his decision to choose a rising star of British film and theatre to play the king of reggae

He was the king of reggae, a giant of Jamaican music whose life was cut short in 1981, aged just 36. Now Bob Marley is to be celebrated on the big screen with a film that will be shot in London and Jamaica this autumn.

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.