Trailer for New Idris Elba Thriller ‘Beast’

Sometimes the rustle in the bushes actually is a monster.

Idris Elba stars in the pulse-pounding new thriller “Beast,” in Theaters August 19th from Universal.

The film is 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.

Idris 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, 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.

Iyana Halley plays Daniels’ 18-year-old daughter, Meredith, and Leah Sava Jeffries plays his 13-year-old, Norah.

From visceral, experiential filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, “Beast” is produced by Will Packer, The film is written by Ryan Engle from an original story by Jaime Primak Sullivan and is executive produced by Jaime Primak Sullivan and Bernard Bellew.

Check Out the New Trailer!