Idris Elba Jurassic Parks his way through the Beast trailer
Just when you thought it was a safe to go back in the lion’s den
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Like The Wizarding World, audiences seemingly tolerated the Jurassic World franchise. While the movies made gobs of money over the last seven years, they’ve largely only served to remind viewers that there’s really only one good Jurassic Park movie, and it’s called Jurassic Park.
So as the world exhales a sigh of relief over the Jurassic World series coming to an end, Universal is, once again, looking to history for humanity’s next threat. And just as ancient Romans fed people to lions, so, too, will Universal ruin Idris Elba’s family safari by feeding the expedition’s members to the king of the jungle.
Beast, a movie wherein Idris Elba takes his daughters on safari only to discover that lions eat people, is Universal’s next nature-based adventure. Taking what is the meat of Jurassic Park and sticking it in the dangerous wilderness of South Africa, Universal is ready to roar with another movie in which cartoon animals attack people.
Elba stands in for Sam Neill as widower Dr. Nate Daniels, who brings his two daughters, Meredith and Norah (Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries) to South Africa, where Daniels met his lost love. For some reason, Daniels really wanted to go to a game reserve run by a family friend, Martin Battles (Sharlto Copley), who will seemingly engage in Battles with a lion that is “a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy.”
As it turns out, lions are not huge fans of being slaughtered by wealthy dentists, businessmen, and the failsons of former presidents, and they want revenge.
It’s difficult to not compare Elba protecting his kids within the confines of an SUV without thinking of Jurassic Park. But when you consider that Dr. Daniels is also jumping into that single-parent role while fending off the piercing teeth of nature’s great predators, well, then it’s clear that this is a separate, wholly new thing….
Directed by Icelandic director Balthasar Kormákur, Beast immediately feels like an early attempt at franchise building now that Jurassic Park is ending. Although, nature-based disaster films have done quite well in the last few years. Movies like The Meg and Crawl indicate that, actually, big scary animals are the problem.
Beast will be galloping into that sweet Meg spot this summer, arriving in theaters on August 19.
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Was The Mountain Between Us really so successful that someone said “Y’know, Idris, we need to turn this into a genre—people hanging out with you and then winding up stuck in nature.” Honestly, given that he’s once again a doctor fighting nature, they could’ve just made this a sequel (SPOILERS for The Mountain Between Us), and these girls are just his and Kate Winslet’s kids. Call it The Mountain Between Us, Too.
Anyone ever see Savage Harvest ? I am ridiculously fond of Nature-Runs-Amok flicks.
So its essentially The Ghost and the Darkness meets Jurassic Park? Love me some Idris Elba but man that doesnt look like it has much legs
I thought I was the only one who remembers that scary AF Michael Douglas movie.
Don’t forget to sprinkle in some of “The Naked Prey” for those soldiers
…and I’m getting some notes of “Cujo” too.
I really hope he gets the Bond role, because he’s at risk of becoming the black Gerard Butler.
yeah I had to read and re-read the implication that this was the basis for a *franchise* starring Idris Elba as a “lion-fighter” LOL
This would have been better as a Predator movie IMHO. Say, one where a Predator decides to “go native” and just kill anything that crosses his path. Elba vs. Predator? Yes please!
“It’s difficult to not compare Elba protecting his kids within the confines of an SUV without thinking of Jurassic Park.”ok
“Beast, a movie wherein Idris Elba takes his daughters on safari only to discover that lions eat people”
What uncle fucked the non-cuntiness out of you?
What exactly does a widower doctor do? Seems pretty specific.
“It’s difficult to not compare Elba protecting his kids within the confines of an SUV without thinking of…”(If the video does not show up it is a trailer for Prey from 2007).
Man if only there was an infamous movie about dangerous lions on a badly run preserve where people have to survive just the experience of visiting there at a bad time. I know! Jurassic Park!
This strikes me as more like the Ghost and the Darkness.
It’s amazing that Roar (1981) exists. Watching Tippi Hedren being grabbed by an elephant’s trunk and tossed around like a ragdoll was certainly…something.
If your favorite part of Jurassic Park 2 was when a girl kicks a velociraptor out a window, well we’ve got a movie where Idris Elba punches a lion in the face
Idris Elba as a genie, yes, and in the wilderness, no.
“It’s difficult to not compare Elba protecting his kids within the confines of an SUV without thinking of Jurassic Park.”Actually it’s pretty easy.
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