Oscar nominee Dev Patel is all set to roar in theatres in April 2024! He achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force characteristic directing debut with the upcoming motion thriller Monkey Man about one man’s quest for vengeance towards the corrupt leaders who murdered his mom and proceed to victimize the poor and powerless systemically. Made In Heaven‘s Sobhita Dhulipala is all set to make her Hollywood debut with this action-packed movie. And hovering on the SXSW 2024, the movie had its world premiere which was met with roaring cheers, claps and standing ovation.
Dev Patel will get emotional amid roaring cheers, standing ovation at world premiere of Monkey Man at SXSW 2024: “I shot this film in the biggest slum in India, Covid hit, and the film went down”
Dev Patel, who’s the producer, author and the lead star of the movie, addressed the viewers on Monday evening as he stated, “People thought I went crazy. I’ve been away for a while. I was reading all these things on the internet ‘Where Are They Now?’ ‘What Happened to Him?’ I’m not really fit for public consumption right now, I’ve been in a dark room, and the paint is literally not dry on this thing.”
“I did a little film where I was just as awkward as I am now –it’s called Slumdog Millionaire. That film was discarded because people underestimated you guys, basically,” Patel stated, as reported by Deadline.
Talking about how the movie confronted turmoil throughout the shoot, he continued, “And the same thing happened here. I put everything into this, I shot this film in the biggest slum in India, Covid hit, and the film went down. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. And then Jordan came along in the end, he picked up from the ground, he brushed the dust off and put it on the mantelpiece.”
Dev Patel overwhelmed by the standing ovation for Monkey Man at SXSW! #monkeyman #sxsw pic.twitter.com/66syWxC2sZ
— Tessa Smith – Mama’s Geeky (@MamasGeeky) March 12, 2024
Dev Patel informed the group that the movie was impressed by his love for Bollywood, Korean and Bruce Lee motion pictures. He was additionally impressed by his grandfather who informed him tales rising up. “I snuck downstairs when I was a little kid, and I watched Bruce Lee on screen through the bannister in Enter the Dragon. I’d never seen anyone who looked slightly like me before and this guy had the same pigment as me, and from that day on, I fell in love with action movies,” he stated.
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying energy and braveness, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an nameless younger man who ekes out a meagre residing in an underground combat membership the place, evening after evening, carrying a gorilla masks, he’s overwhelmed bloody by extra widespread fighters for money. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a technique to infiltrate the enclave of the town’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred arms unleash an explosive marketing campaign of retribution to settle the rating with the lads who took every thing from him.
“What you’re going to see is a guy who doesn’t have a quip for every scenario, isn’t the heftiest dude in the room, and doesn’t look like he’s going to win. Because he’s an underdog. And that’s what I’ve felt like my whole f**king life,” stated Dev Patel.
“Basically, this is a story about an underdog, being helped by a whole other load of underdogs to realize their true power collectively. I think the action genre has sometimes been abused by the system,” stated Patel, including, “I wanted to give it real soul, real trauma, real pain and you guys deserve that. And I wanted to infuse it with a little bit of culture.
Director, producer, writer and star #DevPatel and producer @jordanpeele on the red carpet for the World Premiere of @monkeymanmovie at the #SXSW Film & TV Festival!???? pic.twitter.com/mUPGIWiLIf
— SXSW (@sxsw) March 12, 2024
Along with the premiere, Universal Pictures unveiled a new sneak peak from the film – a kitchen fight sequence. However, Patel revealed that he broke his arm during the shoot. Turns, out two weeks before the shooting commenced, he had a broken foot as well. He said, “You can see in the film, there’s a wrap on my hand.”
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— Monkey Man (@monkeymanmovie) March 11, 2024
Packed with thrilling and spectacular combat and chase scenes, Monkey Man is directed by Dev Patel from his authentic story and his screenplay with Paul Angunawela and John Collee. The movie’s worldwide forged contains Sharlto Copley, Sobhita Dhulipala, Pitobash, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte, Sikandar Kher and Makarand Deshpande.
Monkey Man is produced by Dev Patel, Jomon Thomas, Oscar winner Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Ian Cooper, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Christine Haebler and Anjay Nagpal. Jonathan Fuhrman, Natalya Pavchinskya, Aaron L. Gilbert, Andria Spring, Alison-Jane Roney and Steven Thibault function govt producers.
Reportedly, Monkey Man was beforehand offered to Netflix for $30 million. However, Peele noticed the film and the potential and determined to go for a theatrical launch.
Universal Pictures presents a Bron Studios manufacturing, a Thunder Road movie, a Monkeypaw manufacturing, and a Minor Realm/S’Ya Concept manufacturing, in affiliation with WME Independent and Creative Wealth Media.
Monkey Man is ready to be launched on April 5, 2024.
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