Beast Director Interview: How Brad Pitt in Snatch Influenced the Rogue Lion

Director Baltasar Kormákur plowed through a mound of production challenges while making Beast. The film wasn’t shot on a sound stage, but rather in South Africa, right smack in the middle of real environments. While there, they went above and beyond to do what was necessary to bring a very impressive-looking VFX lion to screen. As though all of that isn’t tough enough, Kormákur also opted for a visual style that would call for some incredibly complicated choreography because he chose to tell this story that involved a VFX rogue lion hunting an ensemble cast in the middle of South Africa largely through lengthy oners.