Machine Gun Preacher
Gerard Butler has finally stepped away from those pretty awful rom-coms and has taken on a role with a bit more bite to it.
We haven't seen the Scotsman on the big screen since The Bounty Hunter but he has teamed up with Marc Forster to tell the real story of Sam Childers.
The movie looks set to be a break out performance for the actor in a role that we have never seen him in before.
And he will follow this performance up with Coriolanus, a role for which he has already received praise, in the new year.
Butler takes on the role of Childers, ), a violent, drug-dealing biker whose faith leads him on a path to East Africa, where he finds his true calling as a machine gun-wielding protector of hundreds of refugee children.
Following a brutal incident, Sam’s loyal wife Lynn (Michelle Monaghan) encourages him to turn to God and he resolves to change the course of his life. Renouncing his hell-raising ways, Sam journeys to Sudan as a missionary to help with the relief effort, leaving his best friend Donnie (Michael Shannon) to take care of his wife and daughter.
There, he witnesses the atrocities that the locals endure at the hands of the vicious Lord’s Resistance Army.
Villages are razed to the ground, women are raped and children are kidnapped and forced to serve as child soldiers. Horrified by what he sees, Childers becomes an avenging angel set on protecting the innocent.
Inspired to create a safe haven for the multitudes fleeing enslavement he restores peace to their lives and, eventually, his own.
Machine Gun Preacher is released 2nd November
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