The new trailer for Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club has gone live over at RopeofSilicon.
The film, which stars Ryan Phillippe (The Lincoln Lawyer), Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Malin Akerman (Watchmen), will hit cinemas on April 22, having been picked up by Tribeca Film.
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Based on real events, The Bang Bang Club centres on Greg Marinovich (Phillippe), Kevin Carter (Kitsch), Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld) and Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach), four combat photojournalists who worked through the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa during the early 90s.
With early reports from its screening at Toronto last year bathing the film in a relatively positive light, it was left to Variety’s Peter Debruge to argue that the filmmakers should have taken more liberties and risks with the story. Regardless of such early reviews, however, the trailer does show considerable promise.
