Netflix Legal-Drama Movie 'Monster': Plot, Cast, Trailer & Netflix Release Date

Netflix Legal Drama Movie Monster Plot Cast Trailer And Netflix Release Date

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Three years after making its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Anthony Madler’s Monster will receive its global release exclusively on Netflix in May 2021. We have everything you need to know about the upcoming legal drama, including its plot, cast, trailer, and Netflix release date.

Monster is an upcoming Netflix Original legal-drama movie directed by Anthony Madler and based on the adapted screenplay by Radha Blank, Cole Whiley, and Janece Shaffer. Prior to Netflix acquiring the distribution rights to Monster, the film still went by its original title of All Rise. The change in title to Monster matches the novel from which the screenplay has been adapted.

Given the current social unrest in the USA as we’ve seen with the Black Lives Matter movement, and the historic oppression of African-Americans the release of Monster on the world’s largest streaming platform will spark lots of interest.

When is the Netflix release date for Monster?

It has been confirmed that Monster is scheduled for its global release on Netflix on Friday, May 7th, 2021.

Monster first premiered over three years ago when it was featured at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. At the time Monster still went by the previous name of All Rise.

What is the plot of Monster?

Charming and likeable Harlem film student Steve Harmon has his life flipped upside down when is charged with murder, and begins a complex legal battle that will see him incarcerated for life, or his name cleared.

Who are the cast members of Monster?

The full cast of Monster is as follows:

Role	Cast Member	Where Have I Seen/Heard Them Before?
Steve Harmon	Kelvin Harrison Jr.	Luce \| Monsters and Men \| It Comes at Night
Mrs. Harmon	Jennifer Hudson	Dreamgirls \| The Secret Life of Bees \| Sex and the City
Mr. Harmon	Jeffrey Wright	Westworld \| Shaft \| The Manchurian Candidate
Katherine O’Brien	Jennifer Ehle	Zero Dark Thirty \| A Quiet Passion \| Little Men
Leroy Sawicki	Tim Blake Nelson	O Brother, Where Art Thou \| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs \| Leaves of Grass
TBA	Nasir “Nas” Jones	Belly \| Blood Diamond \| Big Momma’s House \|
William King	Rakim “A$AP Rocky” Mayers	Dope \| Zoolander \| Divergent \|
Anthony Petrocelli	Paul Ben-Victor	Daredevil \| Tombstone \| Don Jon
Richard “Bobo” Evans	John David Washington	BlacKkKlansman \| Tenet \| Malcolm & Marie
Alexandra Floyd	Mikey Madison	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood \| Better Things \| The Addams Family
Detective Karyl	Jonny Coyne	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life \| Gangster Squad \| Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Renee Pickford	Lovie Simone	The Craft: Legacy \| Greenleaf \| Selah and the Spades

Chronologically, Monster is the third Netflix Original for lead actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. after previously starring in Mudbound and The Trials of the Chicago Seven.

The release of Monster will be the fifth Netflix Original for Westworld actor Jeffrey Wright. He has starred in the thriller Hold the Dark and in Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat. Wright also lent his incredible voice to the wonderfully animated series Green Eggs and Ham, and Netflix’s most popular adult-animated comedy Bojack Horseman.

Prior to Monster, Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy Award-winning artist Jennifer Hudson had only starred in one NetflixOriginal, that being Adam Sandler’s comedy Sandy Wexler.