New Movie ‘Monkey Man,’

Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel is making his directorial debut with the action-packed revenge tale “Monkey Man,”

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which is being theatrically released by Universal Pictures on April 5.

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Jordan Peele produces the movie through his Monkeypaw Productions, and the film got its first trailer Friday morning.

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Patel stars in the movie as Kid, “an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where

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The film is inspired by the legend of Hanuman, a deity in Hinduism.

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The logline says, “After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite.

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