Five time Emmy Award nominee Idris Elba (Luther) is stalked by a lion intent on making Elba and his daughters his next meal in Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). The official trailer has a definite The Ghost and the Darkness – the 1996 thriller starring Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, and Tom Wilkinson – vibe but with better effects and only one apex predator.
In addition to Idris Elba, the cast includes Sharlto Copley (Russian Doll), Iyana Halley (This is Us), and Leah Sava Jeffries (Rel).
Rampage‘s Ryan Engle wrote the screenplay based on a story by Jaime Primak Sullivan. Director Baltasar Kormákur, Will Packer, and James Lopez produced, with Jaime Primak Sullivan and Bernard Bellew executive producing.
Universal Pictures has set an August 19, 2022 theatrical release.
The plot, courtesy of Universal Pictures:
“Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster.
Idris Elba 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 (Copley), 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 plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries plays his 13-year-old, Norah.”
