Sundance favorite, Monster has found a home at Netflix. Anthony Mandler's directorial debut first hit the festival circuit in 2018.
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Monster starts rising star, Kelvin Harrison Jr., as Steve Harmon, a gifted student and aspiring filmmaker who has to fight for his innocence in a system designed against him. The sensitive 17-year-old has to stand trial for serving as a lookout during a fatal armed robbery at a Harlem bodega. Mandler explains to Deadline what drew him to the film. "Watching this kid from a great family goes to a great school seek out his take on the world and how that curiosity leads him to a place where he now has to defend his life against what happened, I was attracted to it on all those different levels,” he explains.
For Harrison, this story was about "impotence vs. potency." He feels Harmon is a "victim of his curiosity," and simply wants to find his power. A$AP Rocky described his character as "a figment of [his] past." He even answered the question of whether or not one decision can dictate your life, and he feels it can. Jennifer Hudson and Jeffrey Wright play Harmon's parents. In the trailer, Nas is seen as someone providing advice to the teenager. Monster will begin streaming worldwide on May 7th; watch the trailer below.
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