Developer Patel broke his hand on the first day of filming MONKEY MAN and continued filming

Production for Dev Patelthe next action movie Monkey man he was plagued by all kinds of problems. It’s like the world collapsed around Patel while he directed and starred in the film, but boy did he keep going! He wasn’t going to give up on this project!

During a recent interview on Tonight’s show with Jimmy FallonPatel revealed he broke his hand on the first day of filming and kept going!

Patel also kept his injury a secret from the doctor because if he told him, it would cause him to wear a cast, leading to any reshoots that they couldn’t afford.

Patel explained: “Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. In the first action scene, I’m basically a crash test dummy: my co-star is using my face to break every piece of porcelain in this bathroom and my hand. – I heard it click and I thought, “This isn’t good.” And I said, “There are 450 people on an island and if I sink, the movie will fail.”

He continued: “And you know, we had a purpose, in a really difficult time in history. And I told my producer, ‘Don’t say anything. Let’s keep shooting.’ At the end of the day, my hand was like an elephant’s foot.”

Patel went on to say that they were fortunate enough to secure a private plane that could transport them to Jakarta for immediate medical treatment. He ended up getting a screw in his little finger, which held up through all the intense action sequences that remained to be shot in the film.

Damn it, Patel! Hell or high water, the director was about to finish his damn movie!

Patel had already talked about all the problems he faced during the making of the film, such as the fact that the financing was almost withdrawn, that they lost the locations, that their camera broke and that at one point it was “practically dead”.

Patel shared, “I begged our financier not to shut us down a few weeks before principal photography. We were supposed to shoot in India, then COVID hit. I lost my initial set designer and [cinematographer] and the film was basically dead, so we changed direction and went to a small island in Indonesia where we could create a bubble in an empty hotel for the entire crew of almost 500 people. It’s been a grueling nine months of absolute joy and total chaos.

He continued: “We had been preparing for months for all the locations where we missed a day, so we had to adapt at the last minute. The borders were also closed, so I couldn’t include many secondary characters. I ended up having to put every tailor, lighting technician, accountant, etc. in front of the camera.

“Speaking of cameras, most of our equipment broke and we couldn’t fly new material, so we literally shot with my cell phone, like professionals: when a crane broke we ended up [up] creating this camera rig with a string that I called a “pendulum cam,” which swings over a large crowd of people, then comes off and the cameramen run into the crowd as it rolls.”

Patel went on to say that there were days when his production designer said the production “literally had no money” to finish certain sets. He also revealed that “One of our producers used his personal credit card to purchase glass to cover the table tops” in one of the major action scenes.

Patel also explained how they had to make use of what little they had: “Speaking of tables, we only had three or four separate tables, so once I’d do a huge amount of stunts I’d yell CUT and then immediately all of us would get on our knees looking for everyone the broken pieces of wood to glue the tables back together for the next shot. Simply put, each obstacle provided us with a new opportunity to innovate. BOOM!”

The story is “Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon who embodies strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a miserable living in an underground Fight Club where, night after night, he wears a mask as a gorilla, he gets beaten bloody by the most popular fighters for money.

“After years of pent-up anger, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the city’s sinister elite enclave. As his childhood trauma reignites, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of revenge to settle scores with the men who took everything from him.”

Jordan Peele produced the project, which was originally supposed to be released on Netflix, but the movie was so damn amazing that Peele pushed for the movie to get a full theatrical release because it’s a movie that needed to be seen on the big screen.

The film’s description says: “Patel makes a stunning tour de force directorial debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for revenge against the corrupt leaders who killed his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless “.

Patel also developed the original story and wrote the screenplay Paul Angunawela AND John Collee (Master and Commander: The Other Side of the World).

The film is said to be packed with thrilling and spectacular fight and chase scenes, and the film’s international cast includes this Sharlto Copley (District 9), Sobhita Dhulipala (Made in heaven), Pitobash (Million dollar arm), Vipin Sharma (Hotel Bombay), Ashwini Kalsekar (Ek Tha Hero), Adithi Kalkunte (Hotel Bombay), Sikandar Kher (Aarya) AND Makarand Deshpande (RRR).

Monkey man is produced by Dev Patel, Jomon Thomas (Hotel Mumbai, The Man Who Knew Infinity), Jordan Peele (No, go out), Win Rosenfeld (Candyman, Hunters series), Ian Cooper (No, us), Basil Iwanyk (John Wick franchising, Hitman movie), Erica Lee (John Wick franchising, Silent night), Christine Haebler (Closed, Crow Bones) AND Anjay Nagpal (executive producer of Bomb, greyhound). Serving as executive producers are Jonathan Fuhrman, Natalia Pavchinskya, Aaron L. Gilbert, Andria Spring, Alison-Jane Roney AND Steven Thibault.

Monkey man will only be released in theaters on April 5, 2024.