Idris Elba's new movie thrown into chaos as lion escapes onto set amid filming

A lion escaped on to the set of Idris Elba’s new movie during filming sparking “panic”, it has been revealed.

Director Baltasar Kormákur said the animal managed to get out of its cage.

In the movie, Beast, Idris plays Dr Nate Samuels, who tries to protect his two teenage daughters from a rampaging lion “the size of a small garbage truck”.

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The director said: “I’m not sure I’m ­allowed to say this, but the lion got out at one point and there was a little bit on panic on set.” The animal was caught and no-one was hurt in the drama.

Mr Kormákur said the lion was used ­after he called fellow film director Alejandro Iñárritu – behind the bear ­attack scene with Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant – for advice.

He said despite using CGI to bring the animal to life, he was told to get a real lion for filming in South Africa.

He added: “So I went to the studio and said, ‘Can I have a lion on set?’ The ­answer, improbably, was ‘yes’.”

It’s hardly the first time we’ve seen chaos on film sets, as iconic blockbuster Waterworld saw actors plagued by rogue jellyfish.

Filmed on an artificial island off the coast of Hawaii, one of the sets collapsed in a hurricane and lead actor Costner nearly died in a squall while lashed to the mast of a boat.

Actress Tina Majorino was stung multiple time by jellyfish, and two stuntmen were badly injured.

Amazingly, despite going £62million over budget, the film went on to make a profit at the box office.

And while directing his hit flick Jaws, Steven Spielberg was determined to shoot at sea with a life-sized mechanical shark nicknamed Bruce, but annoyingly for the director, it kept going wrong.

The shoot was also plagued by seasickness and a boat carrying the actors sank, while mishaps included one actor nearly being decapitated by a propeller.

Actor Robert Shaw, who played boozy shark hunter Quint was often drunk for real and he feuded with co-star Richard Dreyfuss, playing the film’s marine biologist.

Spielberg previously commented after the release of the film said: “I thought my career as a filmmaker was over,”

Principal photography took three times as long as it was supposed to and Jaws cost twice its initial budget, but luckily became a box office smash.

Elba’s new flick Beast is out in cinemas on August 26.

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