Michelle Monaghan and Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) are joining the cast of the true story-inspired "Machine Gun Preacher," says Deadline Hollywood.
Marc Forster (Quantum Of Solace).will direct the story of Sam Childers (Gerard Butler), a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Childers established an orphanage to house 200 children, then formed a militia to protect them, recover other kidnapped kids, and dispense outlaw justice on their captors.
Monaghan (pictured w/ Butler) will play Childers' wife who struggled to keep their family together in Detroit. Shannon is in talks to play his close friend who stayed with his wife while he was away.
Forster co-wrote the script with Jason Keller based on the Childers' memoir Another Man's War
Gary Safady, Craig Chapman, Robbie Brenner and Debora Giarranta are producing. Filming kicks off this Summer.
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