Netflix has released the main trailer for their original film Beasts of No Nation available on Friday, October 16th in both select theaters and on the Netflix streaming platform.
An Official Selection at the 2015 Venice, Toronto, and Telluride film festivals, Beasts of No Nation stars Idris Elba (Pacific Rim, Prometheus), Ama K. Abebrese (The Cursed Ones), and new comer Abraham Attah.
The film was directed by, and written for the screen by Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Sin Nombre, Jane Eyre), based on the novel by Uzodinma Iweala.
Beasts of No Nation was created in Ghana with an estimated budget of $6M.
From Netflix:
“When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier.”