After an tonally odd promo trailer premiered around the time of its Toronto International Film Festival debut last fall, we now have a proper theatrical trailer for The Bang Bang Club. While director Steven Silver‘s latest didn’t receive great reviews, I’m still somewhat interested in this photography drama/thriller. Appearing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming John Carter of Mars and Battleship, it is one of the few “indie” films Taylor Kitsch has taken part in. He is joined by Ryan Phillippe and Malin Akerman. Check out the trailer below via Apple.
Synopsis: The Bang Bang Club is the real life story of a group of four young combat photographers – Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Kevin Carter and Ken Oosterbroek – bonded by friendship and their sense of purpose to tell the truth. They risked their lives and used their camera lenses to tell the world of the brutality and violence associated with the first free elections in post Apartheid South Africa in the early 90s. This intense political period brought out their best work (two won Pulitzers during the period) but cost them a heavy price. Based on the book of the same name by Marinovich and Silva, the film stars Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch and explores the thrill, danger and moral questions associated with exposing the truth.
The Bang Bang Club hits theaters April 22nd, 2011.
What do you think of the trailer?