Monkey Man: Dev Patel Is a (Literal) Beast in Bloody and Brutal New Trailer - Watch Now

We're just two weeks away from the theatrical debut ofa href="https://www.universalpictures.com/movies/monkey-man" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emMonkey Man/em/a, the new action-revenge drama from director and star a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/dev-patel" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Dev Patel/a and producer a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/people/jordan-peele" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jordan Peele/a. Now, a new trailer is here to get audiences even more stoked for the brutal madness that is Patel's directorial debut./p pPatel (who also co-wrote the film) stars as Kid, a young man with a tragic past who scrapes by fighting in underground boxing clubs in the underworld of the Indian city where he lives. But Kid's not just scraping by, he's biding his time, waiting for an opportunity to go after something bigger./p pYears earlier, Kid lost his family in a horrible attack led by a corrupt local official (Sikandar Kher), and a new piece of information has finally given him what he needs to infiltrate that official's inner sanctum, a nightclub where the rich and powerful feast on their spoils, treating the lower classes like "animals." As the trailer below shows, Kid might not have the same killer instinct as his opponents, but once he starts this journey of vengeance, he's not going to stop./p pstrongFor More on emMonkey Man/em:/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patels-monkey-man-premieres-at-sxsw-what-critics-are-saying" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patels-monkey-man-premieres-at-sxsw-what-critics-are-saying" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patels-monkey-man-premieres-at-sxsw-what-critics-are-saying" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Dev Patel'semMonkey Man/emPremieres at SXSW/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/monkey-man-dev-patel-jordan-peele-movie-super-bowl-teaser" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/monkey-man-dev-patel-jordan-peele-movie-super-bowl-teaser" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/monkey-man-dev-patel-jordan-peele-movie-super-bowl-teaser" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Dev Patel Lights a Fuse of Vengeance in Super Bowl Trailer foremMonkey Man/em/a/strongbrstrongema href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patel-broke-his-hand-filming-monkey-man" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Dev Patel Broke His Hand Filming Monkey Man and Just Kept Fighting - Watch Action Scene/a/em/strong/p h2Watch the New Trailer for emMonkey Man/em/h2 p/pdiv class="embed-code-other embed-code-youtube"iframe loading="lazy" fetchpriority="low" src="about:blank" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aqa3YTtwvaU?si=ktAj_dv4_MFmBx4t" class="optanon-category-13" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 560 / 315;"/iframe/div pInspired by the Hindu legend of Hanuman,emMonkey Man/em's long road to the big screen was almost as treacherous and difficult as Kid's journey to confront the people behind his mother's death. Patel and crew endured everything from COVID shutdowns to broken equipment to, at one point, a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patel-broke-his-hand-filming-monkey-man" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patel-broke-his-hand-filming-monkey-man" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patel-broke-his-hand-filming-monkey-man" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"a broken hand/a that Patel literally had to fight through, only to then find the film without a theatrical home./p pThat's when Peele stepped in with his a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/jordan-peele-launches-search-for-next-great-horror-filmmaker" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Monkeypaw Productions/a banner, eventually shepherdingemMonkey Man/emto distribution with a href="https://www.universalpictures.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Universal Pictures/a./p pNow, after a a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/dev-patels-monkey-man-premieres-at-sxsw-what-critics-are-saying" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"SXSW premiere/a that saw Patel receive a standing ovation for his work on the film,emMonkey Man/emis almost upon general audiences, and it stands as one of the most-anticipated action movies of the year./p pemstrongMonkey Manhits theaters April 5. a data-entity-href="https://www.fandango.com/monkey-man-2024-234977/movie-overview" data-entity-title="https://www.fandango.com/monkey-man-2024-234977/movie-overview" href="https://www.fandango.com/monkey-man-2024-234977/movie-overview" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Get tickets at Fandango/a./strong/em/p