Universal Pictures has debuted the first trailer for Beast, the upcoming survival thriller from director Baltasar Kormákur which stars Idris Elba, Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries as a father and his two teenage daughters who come under attack from a vengeful lion during a long-planned family trip to South Africa. Check it out here…
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Idris 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 (Sharlto Copley, Russian Doll series, Maleficent), 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.
Beast arrives in cinemas on August 19th.