How Dev Patel got ‘Monkey Man,’ his directorial debut beset by challenges, to the finish line
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Dev Patel first pitched “Monkey Man” as “a revenge film about faith.” “Faith can be such a beautiful, powerful thing. “The iconographies, the stories, the morals of right and wrong and courage, there’s this duality to it.. You look at these old temple carvings in India and it was so much more free, open, and radical in a way.” This image released by Universal Pictures shows Dev Patel from the film "Monkey Man." This image released by Universal Pictures shows Dev Patel in a scene from the film “Monkey Man.” “I’ve got a place here in LA, and, you don’t need to look far to look at cases of police brutality or, you know, every society faces a sort of caste system,” Patel says. “And it’s really been a humbling experience.” This image released by Universal Pictures shows Dev Patel, left, and Sobhita Dhulipala on the set of "Monkey Man."
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