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.
From visceral, experiential filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, the director of “Everest” and Universal Pictures’ “2 Guns” and “Contraband,” “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, including “Night School,” “No Good Deed” and “Think Like a Man,” by James Lopez, president of Will Packer Productions, and by Baltasar Kormákur. The film is written by Ryan Engle (“Rampage,” “Non-Stop”) from an original story by Jaime Primak Sullivan and is executive produced by Jaime Primak Sullivan and Bernard Bellew.
In Theaters Friday, August 19th
