Film
Oct 11, 2011

GERARD BUTLER, MACHINE GUN PREACHER

PPLA correspondent Michelle Romano caught up with Gerard Butler at the Machine Gun Preacher premiere in Los Angeles. Gerard brings the real-life story of Sam Childers to the screen in this inspirational film. Find out why this was his ‘passion project’.

Butler plays Sam Childers, an ex-gang member and former drug-dealing criminal, who makes a life changing decision when he travels to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war. While there, he embarks on a personal journey of transformation and becomes the unlikely savior of over a thousand Sudanese orphans who faced disease, enslavement, and starvation, many of whom were even forced to become young soldiers.  This film also stars Michelle Monaghan.