Barred From Release in the Country It’s Set, This Jordan Peele-Backed 89% RT Action Hit Finds Redemption on Streaming

Maverick filmmaker Jordan Peele was reportedly quite upset about not being able to bag the rights to director Zach Cregger 's Weapons , when the script inspired a feeding frenzy in Hollywood. New Line Pictures was said to have outbid Peele's Monkeypaw Productions by $7 million. Weapons has validated all the attention it was getting prior to production with its stupendous reviews and phenomenal box office performance so far. Peele might've lost that one, but Weapons was always going to be made, with or without him. His intervention, however, was pivotal to the release of Dev Patel 's debut film, Monkey Man , which was abandoned by Netflix and remains unreleased in the country it's set in . The action film has now found redemption online, after its debut on HBO Ma