Universal Pictures has released the official Beast trailer for its forthcoming pulse-pounding survival thriller, starring Idris Elba. The film is scheduled to hit the theaters on August 19.
The video, which you can check out below, introduces Elba’s character as a father fighting for his and his daughters’ survival against a massive lion.
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Beast is directed by Baltasar Kormákur from a screenplay written by Ryan Engle based on an original story by Jaime Primak Sullivan. Joining Elba are Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) and Leah Sava Jeffries (Percy Jackson and the Olympians).
“The film is 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,” reads the synopsis. “Elba plays Dr. Nate Samuels, 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. 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.”
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Beast is produced by Will Packer, the blockbuster producer of Girls Trip, the Ride Along franchise, and ten movies that have opened No. 1 at the U.S. box office, and by James Lopez, president of Will Packer Productions. It is executive produced by Jaime Primak Sullivan and Bernard Bellew.
