The new trailer has been released for action thriller Monkey Man, directed by and starring Dev Patel.
The official premise reads:
'A young man ekes out a meagre living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he's beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, he discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city's sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.'
It stars Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sikandar Kher, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, and Makarand Deshpande.
Patel is making his directorial debut for this one and also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Paul Angunawela and John Collee.
The movie was initially set for a Netflix-only distribution but after Jordan Peele saw the movie, he believed it deserved a theatrical release, which was eventually acquired through his Monkeypaw Productions.
Patel previously said of the project: "I hope this will be a fresh addition to the genre at a time in this industry where my story can become our story. Shooting a film during a pandemic has been quite challenging to say the least, but the opportunity to reimagine stories from my childhood and infuse them with my love of action cinema has been an absolute joy."
Monkey Man trailer
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