Here’s a newer look at the trailer for Marc Forster’s Machine Gun Preacher. It comes from Virgin Produces and is a shorter version of the original released by Relativity last month. It’s probably designed as a television spot since it’s the right length. In any case, I’m bringing it to you here because I want to keep thumping the tub for this movie.

Butler spoke to the LA Times recently about what filming Machine Gun Preacher meant to him:

“I feel every emotion. I haven’t talked much about this movie in a while, and I did the other day, and I just started crying. I cried for about five minutes. Preacher forced Butler to examine his own demons as he embodied the violent, rageful Childers, a rural Pennsylvania native who transformed his drug-riddled, crime-filled life after finding God. Childers’ born-again experience led him to becoming a preacher in his hometown before traveling to Africa, where he came upon hundreds of children orphaned at the hands of the Lord’s Resistance Army, which was staging a violent campaign throughout Uganda, Sudan and the Congo. The atrocities propelled Childers to found an orphanage in Sudan in 1998 that now houses more than 200 children and feeds more than 1,000.  “A lot of the feelings I felt with Sam, the violence and the craziness, being out of control and not knowing how to live your life, I had all that,” says Butler, who remade himself as an actor after his unhappiness with his first career as a lawyer led him to use alcohol and drugs. “Did I go around stabbing people and shooting people? No. Did I end up in Africa building an orphanage? No. But I did have a massive transformation in my life where I sorted everything out.”

Machine Gun Preacher will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival then opens in a limited release on September 23. It begins a wider platform release on September 30.

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