Idris Elba”s production company, Green Door Pictures, has signed a first-look deal with Apple TV+, Apple”s streaming platform.

Elba founded Green Door in 2013; it has since gone on to make three series of 1980s-set comedy In the Long Run (pictured), loosely based on Elba”s own childhood; Turn Up Charlie; Guerrilla and documentary Idris Elba: Fighter.

Green Door also recently completed Concrete Cowboy, a feature directed by Ricky Staub about the subculture of urban horseback riding in North Philadelphia.

Apple has been signing up several notables recently including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Oprah Winfrey and, in the last week or so, has inked a deal with the Maurice Sendak Foundation to reimagine new children”s series and specials based on Sendak”s books and illustrations.

Photo via Sky.