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.
