First Teaser Trailer For Beasts Of No Nation

Netflix announced today that it is partnering with Bleecker Street, the new distribution company founded by Andrew Karpen last year, and Landmark to open the Africa-set drama in select markets in the U.S.as it simultaneously makes its worldwide bow on the streaming service.

Cary Fukunaga may not be directing this season of “True Detective,” unfortunately, but he’s been hard at work with a new film for Netflix.

The film will only be shown in Landmark Theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, Indianapolis, Houston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Diego and St. Louis.

Netflix has already gotten the film into competition at the Venice Film Festival and it is slotted for the Toronto Film Festival as well. That means it will be eligible for the Academy Awards.

Here’s a look at Idris Elba’s role in upcoming Netflix feature film Beasts of No Nation – and it’s not a pretty sight…

The movie is produced by Elba, Fukunaga, Amy Kaufman, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Riva Marker and Dan Crown for Red Crown Productions.

Beasts, which adapts author Uzodinma Iweala’s novel, finds a young man named Agu (Abraham Attah) abducted from his home and pressed into service as a child soldier. Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Donna Gigliotti, Elizabeth Koch, Kristina Kendall, Bill Benenson, Laura Bickford, and Todd Courtney executive produced. Elba is playing the Commandant, a warlord who mentors Agu during his training.

Netflix also released the first teaser trailer for the film on Thursday, which can be seen below.