Dev Patel cowrote, directed and starred in the upcoming action thriller ‘Monkey Man,’ which Jordan Peele signed on to coproduce
Dev Patel didn’t plan to direct the upcoming action thriller Monkey Man, which he also cowrote and starred in.
“You see throughout this film, we didn’t have enough stuntmen,” Patel explained during the talk-back, noting that he killed “the same eight guys” repeatedly during the final sequences. “This film is born from my love of so much action cinema, from Bruce Lee to Sammo Hung to Jet Lee to Jackie Chan to the Korean cinema that totally changed my life,” the Slumdog Millionaire actor said. “And also Bollywood.”
“Hanuman really captivated me. He has been sort of an emblem for my father and many in my family,” he said. “What baffled me growing up was this iconography of this super-strong being who could hold mountains in one hand and split his chest open. It reminded me of the iconography of Superman. I was like, ‘This is amazing, I wish the world knew about it.’”
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