Dev Patel's Monkey Man Premiered, and He Looked Great

It sounds like Dev Patel really gave up his pound of flesh to make Monkey Man, which he wrote, directed, and stars in: He survived three separate physical injuries, a global pandemic, and a multi-year development process, only for the film to get dumped by Netflix. He thought it was a dead project until Jordan Peele got Universal to buy it; I hope it does well, because what an odyssey. And we need studios to keep supporting ambitious material and filmmakers, so that everything isn't just a half-cooked comic-book movie or a reboot.

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