Watch Gerard Butler And Michelle Monaghan In Marc Forster’s MACHINE GUN PREACHER Trailer

Here’s your first look at Gerard Butler in the trailer for Relativity Media’s MACHINE GUN PREACHER. The film will have it’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Machine Gun Preacher is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who finds faith leading him on a path to East Africa. Shocked by the mayhem in Sudan, Childers becomes a crusader for hundreds of refugee children. Inspired to create a safe haven for the multitudes fleeing enslavement by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army, he restores peace to their lives and eventually his own.

Directed and produced by DGA and Golden Globe®-nominee Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster’s Ball) and written by Jason Keller (Relativity’s Untitled Snow White Project), the film will release in Los Angeles and New York on September 23, 2011 and expand to other markets in the weeks to follow. Lionsgate has international distribution rights, working in partnership with Relativity who has North American rights to theatrically market and distribute the film.

MACHINE GUN PREACHER also showcases powerful performances by an ensemble cast, including Michelle Monaghan (Due Date), Kathy Baker (Cold Mountain), Oscar®-nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), Madeline Carroll (The Spy Next Door) and breakout actor Souleymane Sy Savane (Goodbye Solo).