We’ve been getting a pretty brilliant look at what to expect from Gerard Butler’s next film, Machine Gun Preacher, in the past few weeks, including a great first trailer and poster, and three clips from the film (two here and the most recent one here).
ComingSoon.net have now got three excellent images from the film, which give us our first look at Michael Shannon’s character, ahead of its Toronto International Film Festival debut this weekend.
The film is based on the fascinating and moving real-life story of Sam Childers, an ex-drug dealing biker who found God and went to Sudan to do good, helping the children there from a life forced into the military.
“When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region’s vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aid workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it’s most needed—in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens.
But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA’s intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives—and eventually his own.”
Marc Forster has taken directing duties, a man who will forever have my respect for his work on Stranger Than Fiction, a brilliant little-known film with Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson. He’s also recently been hard at work filming the Brad Pitt-starrer, World War Z, and looks to be pretty comfortably on top of his game at the moment.
What we’ve seen so far of the film has been terrific, and incredibly touching in places, so we can expect this to be a real heartstring-tugger when it gets its UK release on 18th November, a date I am very much looking forward to and committing to memory. Without further ado, here are the new images from the film. As usual, click to enlarge.
