Idris Elba to star as the Hunchback of Notre Dame for Netflix The Hollywood Reporter brings word Golden Globe winner Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation, Luther, Avengers: Infinity War) is taking on the classic gothic romance The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Netflix where he is set to star, direct, and produce the modern re-telling. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is being written by Michael Mitnick (The Current War, The Giver), adapting Victor Hugo’s classic French Romantic/gothic novel of the same name that was published in 1831.