MOVIE NEWS – A recently widowed father (Idris Elba) takes his two teenage daughters to a South African safari park, where they are chased by a furious lion that has recently escaped from poachers and is therefore addicted to bipeds. In the roughest scenes of The Beast, a computer-generated lion is featured, but the crew also included a real beast, causing quite a bit of trouble on the set.

It so happened that the director of the film, the Icelandic Baltasar Kormákur (Smugglers, Everest) called his good friend, the four-time Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu (< em>Korcs loves, Babel, The Returner, Birdman), to discuss the new film. As Kormákur told Total Film, Inárritu advised him, among other things, to get a real lion for the production to experience how the lights fall on the animal’s fur. The Universal studio surprisingly agreed to the risky signing of the beast.

Kormákur’s son was the second unit director, and he was given the honorable task of climbing into the lion’s cage and filming it. “Because that’s the kind of father I am,” Kormákur joked about this. Somehow, the lion broke free and started rampaging around the filming location. In the end, his benders managed to catch him, but some crew members experienced exciting moments.

It is worth recalling the 1981 film Roar, starring Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith, in which an African it was about adventure. The production featured 150 wild lions, which is why the following inscription appeared at the film’s end: “Not a single animal was harmed on the set. 70 members of the crew were”.

Source: UIP Dunafilm