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With Crimson Peak, The Assassin, Bridge of Spies, and more arriving this week, there’s a number of worthwhile options to seek out, but the easiest to find will be Cary Fukunaga‘s Beasts of No Nation. Debuting on Netflix globally this Friday, we now have one last trailer as well as 45 minutes worth of talks with the director when it comes to the making of his latest drama.

Led by Idris Elba, Uzodinma Iweala‘s story, adapted by Fukunaga, centers on a young boy, Agu, who, when civil war engulfs his West African country, is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters. Agu must not only face the death of his father and disappearance of his mother and sister, but also join a life of violence and brutality, which is where Elba’s character figures in.

We said in our review, “If there were any question marks still floating over Cary Fukunaga’s credentials, his latest film, Beasts of No Nation, should flick them aside with ease. Based on the acclaimed novel by American writer Uzodinma Iweala and boasting staggering performances from both of its lead players, Abraham Attah and Idris Elba, Fukunaga has delivered one of the most viscerally stylized war films in recent memory. The Africa-set drama is a relentlessly violent, vibrant, and electric film that is at once as druggy and entrancing as Coppola’s 1979 cut of Apocalypse Now and as sonically inventive as Elem Klimov’s Come and See.”

Check out the final trailer and talks with Fukunaga below.

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Beasts of No Nation hits limited release and Netflix on October 16th.

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