Distributor Diamond Films will bring the film Monkey Man to cinemas in Brazil, which receives the national title of PRIMITIVE FURY. Directed and starred by Dev Patel, this film will hit the big screen on May 23, presenting the intense journey of a man in search of revenge.
PRIMITIVE FURY represents Dev Patel’s debut as a film director. The original plot is conceived by Patel, who also contributes to the script alongside Paul Angunawela and John Collee. The film made its debut at the SXSW Festival and was awarded the Fresh seal by the renowned review site Rotten Tomatoes.
In PRIMITIVE FURY Patel is Kid, a young man who makes a living in an underground fight club, where, wearing a gorilla mask, he is brutally beaten every night by more popular fighters. After years of suppressed rage and a very hard life, Kid finds a way to infiltrate the city’s elite. As his childhood trauma resurfaces, he goes to great lengths to settle accounts with the high society men who took what little he had.
