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Idris Elba stars in dramatic trailer for Netflix’s ‘Beasts of No Nation’

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Audra Schroeder

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Posted on Jul 30, 2015   Updated on May 28, 2021, 6:25 am CDT

Netflix has released the first trailer for Beasts of No Nation, an original drama starring Idris Elba

Directed by True Detective‘s Cary Fukunaga and adapted from Uzodinma Iweala’s book of the same name, Beasts of No Nation tells the story of Agu, a young African boy wrest away from his family and turned into a child soldier. Elba plays Commmandant, the one who thrusts Agu into that new life swiftly. 

Netflix dropped a reported $12 million on the film, and if Fukunaga’s 2009 film Sin Nombre is any indication, Beasts will be just as stunning and heartbreaking. 

The film will debut on Netflix Oct. 16, as well as in 19 theaters. 

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*First Published: Jul 30, 2015, 2:56 pm CDT