Ahead of its release this August, Universal Pictures has shared a new poster for Baltasar Kormákur’s survival thriller Beast, featuring star Idris Elba as Nate Daniels, a recently-widowed doctor who travels to South Africa with his daughter but gets more than he bargained for when he finds himself in a battle of wits against a vengeful lion.
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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.