The film will receive its world premiere at the 65th festival which is expected to mix in-person events with virtual programmes
The Harder They Fall, a new western starring Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors and Zazie Beetz, is to be the opening film for the 2021 edition of the BFI
London film festival, it has been announced.
Directed and co-written by Jeymes Samuel (AKA the Bullitts), The Harder They Fall is described by the festival as a “righteously new school western”, and features Majors as an outlaw who assembles a gang to take revenge on his enemy, played by Elba, who has recently been released from
prison.