Watch The Heart Pounding Beast Trailer Starring Idris Elba

A family holiday turns into a nightmarish battle for survival as Universal Pictures unleash the heart pounding UK Trailer for Beast.

Idris Elba stars with Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur (The Deep, 2 Guns, Everest, The Oath) directing. Elba stars in a 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.

The trailer highlights two sides of the plot. First a family drama returning to South Africa where he met his wife then a ‘devil’ attacks. If you don’t respect the laws of the jungle, the animals will attack and prayers may not save you when it’s a apex predator? Is it me does the intensity remind you of Michael Douglas Ghost Of Darkness?

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.

The cast also includes Iyana Halley (The Hate U Give, This is Us series) plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries (Rel series, Empire series) plays his 13-year-old, Norah. Sharlto Copley also stars.

Beast will be released in UK and Irish cinemas from 26th August. If you live in the U.S you can see the film a week earlier on 19th August.