The first image has been released of Gerard Butler in Marc Forster's Machine Gun Preacher, the upcoming biopic of Sam Childers. Childers is a former gang-biker, drug dealer, alcoholic and comprehensive ruffian who turned his life around after joining the Assembly of God church and became an active combatant of the kidnappings, murders and sex- and slave-trade of Sudanese children perpetrated by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. Portraying Childers, who also founded the Children's Village Angels of East Africa in Southern Sudan, is Butler, pictured below in character.
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