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Category: Machine Gun Preacher News Posted by: admin Actor Gerard Butler will be in Melvindale July 8-28 to shoot scenes from the new Lionsgate film "Machine Gun Preacher" before moving to South Africa to film the remainder.
'Machine Gun Preacher,' starring Gerard Butler, to film in Metro Detroit
Article Date: June 21, 2010 | Publication: MLive.com | Author: Jessica Nunez
Source: MLive.com
The film is based on the true story of Sam Childers, a missionary in southern Sudan who really is referred to as the "Machine Gun Preacher."
Childers is a former gang biker and drug dealer from Pennsylvania who became a member of the Assembly of God church and later visited Sudan.
While in Africa, he witnessed the work of the Lord's Resistance Army, a militant group in northern Uganda and southern Sudan that captured children and forced them to be child soldiers and sex slaves.
"I seen the body of a small child that stepped on a land mine," he said in the television news interview embedded below. "I remember I stood over that body and I said, 'God, I'll do whatever I can to help these kids.'"
