Dev Patel is set to make his directorial feature debut with Monkey Man, a revenge thriller that earned significant buzz at last week’s virtual EDM. So of course it was Netflix, with its bottomless wells of money and eye for buzzy titles, that snatched up Monkey Man in an impressive $30 million deal. Deadline reports that Netflix has struck a deal worth roughly $30 million for most of the worldwide rights — excluding existing deals in Spain, Latin America, Iceland, Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Russia & Baltic States, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Pan-Asian PTV and China — to Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man. Netflix beat out several other bidders for the India-set revenge thriller in which Oscar nominee Patel stars as an “unlikely hero who emerges from prison to take on a world enmeshed in corporate greed and eroding spiritual values, and seeking revenge from those who took everything from him years before.” The film is partly inspired by the Hindu myth about the deity Hanuman who is half man, half monkey, per Deadline. But the finished product, as one source describes to the outlet, is more “