Are you in the market for a movie featuring Idris Elba punching a huge lion in the face? Then right this way!
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Beast, a new man-against-nature thriller starring The Suicide Squad actor as a doctor who brings his two teenage daughters on safari in South Africa only to encounter a monstrous rogue lion who sees all humans as its prey.
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest. 2 Guns), this really does look like your run-of-the-mill animal attack flick, but Elba and costar Sharlto Copley (District 9) are sure to elevate the material.
Check out the trailer below, and let us know what you think.
Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster. Idris Elba (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, The Suicide Squad) stars in a pulse-pounding new thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator. Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley, Russian Doll series, Maleficent), an old family friend and wildlife biologist.
But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fearsome fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them. Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries (Rel series, Empire series) plays his 13-year-old, Norah.
Beast is set to roar into theaters on August 19th.