Morgan Freeman and Luke Hemsworth Star in Trailer for Action Thriller GUNNER
A new trailer has been released for the action thriller Gunner, starring Luke Hemsworth and Morgan Freeman, along with Barry Jay Minoff, Grant Feely, Connor DeWolfe, Joseph Baena, Sean Rogers, Gary Wood, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Yulia Klass, and Maurice P. Kerry.
The film is directed by Dimitri Logothetis (Pretty Smart, The Closer, Body Shot), from a screenplay co-written by Dimitri Logothetis and Gary Scott Thompson.
The film’s synopsis reads: “War veteran Colonel Lee Gunner (Luke Hemsworth) takes his two sons on a camping trip with their Uncle Jon, to reconnect with them after being at the front for so long.
“The trip goes awry when Jon stumbles over a tripwire and sets off an explosion, alerting a gang of violent bikers in the midst of a massive drug operation.
“Not anticipating Gunner's elite combat skills, the gang members are taken out one by one. The boys try to go for help, but end up right in the arms of Dobbs, the son of the gang's kingpin Kendric Ryker, who runs the whole organization from in prison.
“With no one but himself to turn to, an enraged Gunner wreaks havoc to rescue his two sons, until he gets to the top and confronts Ryker.”
At first glance, this looked like another action movie that was pumped out in a long line of mediocre stories just like it, but upon watching the whole trailer, it actually looks a step above all that.
The action is decent, and Freeman and Hemsworth are good enough actors to bring it up a notch. Check out the trailer below, and watch Gunner when it’s released Direct to VOD on August 16th.