Dev Patel’s Monkey Man Gets A Vicious First Trailer
Oscar-nominee Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with the action-packed revenge tale Monkey Man. The film, out on April 5, is produced by Jordan Peele through his Monkeypaw Productions via Universal Studios, who dropped the first trailer Friday morning.
Patel stars in the movie as Kid, described as “an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. The legend of Hanuman, a deity in Hinduism, inspires the film. Check out the trailer below.
“After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite,” the official synopsis reads. “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.”