Brit actor Andrew Garfield plays real life American Army medic Desmond T. Doss in director Mel Gibson’s World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge.
The film follows Doss who served his country while remaining true to his religious convictions in not killing another human being.
“With the world so set on tearin’ itself apart, don’t seem like a bad thing to me to try to put a little bit of it back together,” Garfield’s character says in the above trailer from Lionsgate Movies.
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Doss, a practicing Seventh-Day Adventist, saved over 75 of his fellow soldiers during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa.
For his selfless bravery, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Hacksaw Ridge also stars Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving, Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer and one of Gibson’s own sons Milo.
It’s been a decade since actor-director Gibson has been behind the camera calling the shots. His last foray was Apocalypto in 2006 and before that was 2004’s The Passion of the Christ, an R-rated film version of the death of Jesus Christ that was a box office success.
See the trailer for The Passion of the Christ below courtesy of AMBI Distribution: