Sharlto Copley joins Idris Elba-starrer Beast ; filming underway in South Africa
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Last Updated: Jun 02, 2021, 02:55 PM IST
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Copley (in pic) joins the film s cast along with actors Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries.
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LOS ANGELES: South African actor Sharlto Copley, best known for movies like A-Team , District 9 and Elysium , will feature alongside Idris Elba in Universal s Beast . The survival thriller, being directed by Baltasar Kormakur of Everest fame, has started filming in South Africa, reported Deadline.
Copley joins the film s cast along with actors Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries.
Based on an original idea by Jaime Primak Sullivan, the film has a script by Ryan Engle, who previously worked on the Dwayne Johnson-starrer Rampage .
Idris Elba s Killer Lion Thriller Beast Will Roar Into Theaters Next Summer
Idris Elba s Killer Lion Thriller Beast Will Roar Into Theaters Next Summer
Universal has now set a 2022 release date for Idris Elba s man-versus-nature movie, Beast.
Audiences now know when they will finally get to see Idris Elba tackle a blood-thirsty lion on the big screen, with Universal setting a release date of August 19, 2022, for upcoming thriller,
Beast. The project was first announced towards the end of last year and will likely be a man-versus-nature movie in the same vein as the likes of
The Grey and
Beast finds
Universal has set an August 19, 2022 release date for Beast, a thriller starring Idris Elba. The film is directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, 2 Guns, and Contraband) and written by Ryan Engle (Rampage, Non-Stop). Beast is produced by Will Packer and James Lopez, president of Will Packer [.]
Beast: Universal Pictures Sets Idris Elba Thriller for August 2022
Luther,
The Suicide Squad) upcoming survival thriller
Beast for Friday, August 19, 2022. The movie will open a week after Universal’s rom-com
Bros and a currently untitled Disney live-action feature.
Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster.
Golden Globe winner 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 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.
Baltasar Kormákur directs the film set at Universal
Brian Welk | May 18, 2021 @ 2:00 PM
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Idris Elba will fight for his survival against the King of the Jungle in his new movie “Beast,” set for release next summer.
Universal has set an August 19, 2022 release for “Beast,” which is directed by Baltasar Kormákur and finds Elba on a trip to South Africa, only for he and his two teenage daughters to be hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savanna has but one apex predator.
And it’s got a dope tagline too: Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster.