The National recorded an original tune for Win Win earlier this year. We’ve seen Alex Turner release an EP for his songs from Submarine, and now with Oscar season gearing up, many possible award contenders will feature Best Original Song hopefuls. The first out of the gate is Soundgarden and Audioslave‘s Chris Cornell, with his solo song The Keeper.
Created for Marc Forster‘s Machine Gun Preacher, which will bow at Toronto International Film Festival, Cornell has made the song available on his site, where you can donate to Sam Childers’ Angels of East Africa charity. Gerard Butler portrays Childers in the drama based on his true life story as a drug-dealer who turns his life around and ends up saving poverty-stricken children in Africa. Check out The Keeper below in today’s Daily Distraction, followed by the trailer if you missed it.
Synopsis:
Machine Gun Preacher is the inspirational true story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who undergoes an astonishing transformation and finds an unexpected calling as the savior of hundreds of kidnapped and orphaned children. Gerard Butler (300) delivers a searing performance as Childers, the impassioned founder of the Angels of East Africa rescue organization in Golden Globe-nominated director Marc Forster’s (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland) moving story of violence and redemption. When ex-biker-gang member Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region’s vulnerable populace, especially the children. Ignoring the warnings of more experienced aide workers, Sam breaks ground for an orphanage where it’s most needed–in the middle of territory controlled by the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a renegade militia that forces youngsters to become soldiers before they even reach their teens. But for Sam, it is not enough to shelter the LRA’s intended victims. Determined to save as many as possible, he leads armed missions deep into enemy territory to retrieve kidnapped children, restoring peace to their lives–and eventually his own. The explosive, real-life tale of a man who has rescued over a thousand orphans from starvation, disease and enslavement, Machine Gun Preacher also stars Michelle Monaghan (Due Date), Kathy Baker (Cold Mountain), Madeline Carroll (Mr. Popper’s Penguins), Academy Award(R) nominated Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) and Souleymane Sy Savane (“Damages”).
Machine Gun Preacher hits theaters September 23rd, 2011.