Open Road Films has released the full-length trailer for the Gerard Butler-led action movie “Kandahar” which will score a U.S. wide theatrical release on May 26th.
The feature hails from “Angel Has Fallen” helmer Ric Roman Waugh and will serve as a piece of counter-programming to that other big theatrical title over the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend – Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid”.
Mitchell LaFortune and Waugh penned the script. The story follows Tom Harris (Butler), an undercover CIA operative operating out of the Afghan city.
Stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is exposed, he and his Afghan translator must fight to make it to an extraction point in Kandahar – all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
Navid Negahban, Ali Fazal, Travis Fimmel and Elnaaz Norouzi co-star, while Basil Iwanyk, Brendon Boyea, Erica Lee, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Christian Mercuri, Ali Jaafar and Scott LaStaiti produce.
Butler, who had the action feature “Plane” in cinemas earlier this year, recently lent his voice to “Naya Legend of the Golden Dolphin” and “ARK: The Animated Series” and has multiple projects on the way, including “Afterburn,” “Remote Control,” “Just Watch Me,” and sequels to both “Greenland” and “Den of Thieves”.
