Dev Patel Directorial Debut Monkey Man Acquired by Netflix Dev Patel directorial debut Monkey Man acquired by Netflix Nearly a year and a half after the project was first announced, Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man is gearing up to finally come to audiences as Netflix has acquired the action-thriller for majority worldwide distribution in a hefty $30 million deal, according to Deadline. Initially slated for a 2019 shoot in India, the global pandemic briefly delayed production until it moved to Indonesia and recently wrapped its filming. After footage from the project debuted at last week’s virtual European Film Market, where sources described it as “