Peacock Sets Streaming Premiere Date for Dev Patel’s MONKEY MAN

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Dev Patel’s directorial debut MONKEY MAN is set to make its SVOD premiere next week, arriving on Peacock on June 14th, 2024. The film world premiered at this year’s SXSW before launching in US theaters on April 5th, 2024. It became available for VOD and digital sale/rental on April 23rd.

Monkey Man is an action thriller directed and produced by Dev Patel, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Paul Angunawela and John Collee. The film stars Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash Tripathy, Vipin Sharma, Sikandar Kher, Adithi Kalkunte, Sobhita Dhulipala, Ashwini Kalsekar, Makarand Deshpande, Jatin Malik, and Zakir Hussain.

In the film, Kid (Patel) is an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

We’ve added the release date to our streaming calendar. Check out the trailer below.