\u2018Beast’, an upcoming MMA thriller from Vertigo Releasing, will be released on digital platforms on 1st June 2026.<\/p>\n
Directed by\u00a0Tyler Atkins\u00a0(\u2018Bosch’,\u00a0\u2018Rockit’),\u00a0\u2018Beast’\u00a0stars Russell Crowe\u00a0(\u2018Gladiator’, \u2018A Beautiful Mind’),\u00a0Daniel MacPherson\u00a0(\u2018Foundation’,\u00a0\u2018Land of Bad’) &\u00a0Luke Hemsworth\u00a0(\u2018The Witcher’,\u00a0\u2018WestWorld’). Watch the trailer for the film below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2018Beast’\u00a0follows ex-con Patton James (Daniel MacPherson), who abandoned his mixed martial arts dream to support his wife, Luciana (Kelly Gale), and daughter. When Patton\u2019s brother Malon suffers a serious injury in a fi ght to make good on his debts, Patton has to risk everything to get back in the ring to avenge him. But to reclaim his old glory and succeed in the ONE Championship, Patton must regain the trust of his ace trainer (Russell Crowe) and keep his own family together.<\/p>\n
Other stars of the film include\u00a0Bren Foster,\u00a0George Burgess,\u00a0Mojean Aria,\u00a0Kelly Gale,\u00a0Amy Shark\u00a0and\u00a0Saphira Moran. The film was co-written by\u00a0David Frigerio\u00a0(\u2018Land of Bad’) &\u00a0Russell Crowe, marking Crowe’s second writing credit, following\u00a0\u2018Poker Face’\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u2018Beast’ is produced by John Schwarz, David Frigerio, Michael Schwarz & Tim O’Hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Beast’, an upcoming MMA thriller from Vertigo Releasing, will be released on digital platforms on 1st June 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[136514,49,48,212445,641,638,46854,82],"class_list":["post-679192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-beast","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-macpherson","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-russell-crowe","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}