Megan Fox goes head-to-head with a lethal lion in trailer for Rogue

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

If you haven't seen much of Megan Fox outside of the TRANSFORMERS and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES franchises, then you might be interested to see her take on a bit of a different role in ROGUE. The upcoming action-thriller from SOLOMAN KANE director M.J. Bassett finds Fox playing a battle-hardened mercenary named Samantha O'Hara. After a mission to retrieve a hostage from ruthless kidnappers goes awry, O'Hara and her team are forced to deal with a horde of ravenous lions. You can check out the trailer above!

"Rogue is the story of a small mercenary unit of soldiers who have been engaged by the governor of an African country to rescue his daughter who has been kidnapped by an Al-Shabaab-type organization," said ROGUE director and co-writer M.J. Bassett while speaking with Entertainment Weekly. "This unit go in, there’s more than one girl so their plan is immediately compromised, and their extraction goes wrong. So, suddenly they find themselves on the run from the bad guys, looking for refuge in Africa, and come across an abandoned farm, or they think it’s abandoned. While they’re hunkering down they realize that the farm was used as a poachers’ stronghold and a breeding place for lions for the hunting industry and the East Asian medicinal market. And though the lions seem to have escaped, there’s clearly one still around. So, suddenly they realize they have no ammunition and they are very much the bottom of the food chain, and they have to survive the night before the bad guys arrive, the lion gets them, and the extraction can happen."

The official synopsis for ROGUE:

Megan Fox (Transformers franchise) tackles a thrilling new role as a battle-hardened mercenary in this explosive action saga. As team leader O’Hara, she leads a lively squad of soldiers on a daring mission: rescue hostages from their captors in remote Africa. But as the mission goes awry and the team is stranded, O’Hara’s squad must face a bloody, brutal encounter with a gang of rebels — and the horde of ravenous, enraged lions they encounter.

ROGUE will be available on Digital and On Demand on August 28, 2020.