Kandahar trailer finds Gerard Butler as a CIA agent trying to make it out of Afghanistan alive after his mission is compromised
Gerard Butler plays a CIA operative trying to make it out of Afghanistan in one piece in the explosive new trailer for Kandahar.
The film was written by former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune, who based the story on his experiences working for the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2013 while being deployed to Afghanistan during the Snowden leaks.
Butler - who most recently starred in the action-thriller Plane - plays Tom Harris, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep undercover in Afghanistan when he learns that his mission has been compromised.
The soldier and his interpreter must make it 400 miles in 30 hours to their extraction point in Kandahar province in the film from director Ric Roman Waugh, who has directed Butler in
Along the way there will be a slew of Afghan forces trying to kill them both before they can make it home safely.
![Trailer: Gerard Butler plays a CIA operative trying to make it out of Afghanistan in one piece in the explosive new trailer for Kandahar](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489111-11940065-Trailer_Gerard_Butler_plays_a_CIA_operative_trying_to_make_it_ou-a-46_1680659198880.jpg)
Trailer: Gerard Butler plays a CIA operative trying to make it out of Afghanistan in one piece in the explosive new trailer for Kandahar
![Interpreter: The soldier and his interpreter must make it 400 miles in 30 hours to their extraction point in Kandahar province in the film from director Ric Roman Waugh, who has directed Butler in](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489109-11940065-Interpreter_The_soldier_and_his_interpreter_must_make_it_400_mil-a-45_1680659198722.jpg)
Interpreter: The soldier and his interpreter must make it 400 miles in 30 hours to their extraction point in Kandahar province in the film from director Ric Roman Waugh, who has directed Butler in
The trailer begins with Tom asking Roman (Travis Fimmell) why he's there, as Roman explains, 'I need you. We're gonna destroy their whole nuclear program.'
The interpreter and Tom drive by a pair of men hanging from nooses as the interpreter says, 'They knew the risks, trust me.'
Tom gets undercover and takes out the target, with his actions celebrated back home... though it's learned that the mission has been compromised.
Tom is seen destroying maps, telling the interpreter their, 'cover is blown. We leave in 15 minutes.'
They head out in a pickup truck as Roman tells them their, 'extraction point is an old CIA base in Kandahar province.'
The interpreter says, 'I just want to go home,' and Tom says, 'I'll be with you,' as they encounter quite a bit of resistance.
It's revealed that they have 400 miles to go in just 30 hours, as Roman explains, 'It's not the distance, it's what's in between.'
Roman is heard saying, 'Whoever catches my guy will sell him to the highest bidder,' while another shot shows Tom and the interpreter approached by many soldiers.
![Why: The trailer begins with Tom asking Roman (Travis Fimmell) why he's there, as Roman explains, 'I need you'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489309-0-image-a-9_1680656651425.jpg)
Why: The trailer begins with Tom asking Roman (Travis Fimmell) why he's there, as Roman explains, 'I need you'
![Roman: Roman explains, 'We're gonna destroy their whole nuclear program'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489315-11940065-Roman_Roman_explains_We_re_gonna_destroy_their_whole_nuclear_pro-a-47_1680659198890.jpg)
Roman: Roman explains, 'We're gonna destroy their whole nuclear program'
![Mission: Tom gets undercover and takes out the target, with his actions celebrated back home... though it's learned that the mission has been compromised](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489121-11940065-Mission_Tom_gets_undercover_and_takes_out_the_target_with_his_ac-a-48_1680659199012.jpg)
Mission: Tom gets undercover and takes out the target, with his actions celebrated back home... though it's learned that the mission has been compromised
![Truck: They head out in a pickup truck as Roman tells them their, 'extraction point is an old CIA base in Kandahar province'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489115-11940065-Truck_They_head_out_in_a_pickup_truck_as_Roman_tells_them_their_-a-49_1680659199050.jpg)
Truck: They head out in a pickup truck as Roman tells them their, 'extraction point is an old CIA base in Kandahar province'
![With you: The interpreter says, 'I just want to go home,' and Tom says, 'I'll be with you,' as they encounter quite a bit of resistance](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489159-11940065-With_you_The_interpreter_says_I_just_want_to_go_home_and_Tom_say-a-50_1680659199058.jpg)
With you: The interpreter says, 'I just want to go home,' and Tom says, 'I'll be with you,' as they encounter quite a bit of resistance
'Show them your hands. Do it, before they get trigger happy,' Tom says, while a woman is being interrogated though she insists she's not a spy.
'I need names,' the man says, though she says they did not get names and asks the man to believe her.
The interpreter asks Tom, 'what's truly going on,' but all he'll say is, 'we're cutouts in a truly bigger game.'
'No one is coming to rescue us,' Tom says plainly before more action-packed shots are shown from the trailer.
The final shots show a minefield setting off a chain reaction explosion in the desert, while Tom and the interpreter must continue on, exhausted, on foot.
The film also stars Ali Fazal, Bahador Foladi, Olivia Mai-Barrett, Nina Toussaint-White and Rebecca Calder.
Butler also serves as a producer alongside Basil Iwanyk, Scott LaStaiti, Christian Mercuri and Alan Siegel.
Open Road Films has set the film for release in theaters nationwide on May 26.
![No spy: 'Show them your hands. Do it, before they get trigger happy,' Tom says, while a woman is being interrogated though she insists she's not a spy](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489199-11940065-No_spy_Show_them_your_hands_Do_it_before_they_get_trigger_happy_-a-52_1680659199137.jpg)
No spy: 'Show them your hands. Do it, before they get trigger happy,' Tom says, while a woman is being interrogated though she insists she's not a spy
![No one: 'No one is coming to rescue us,' Tom says plainly before more action-packed shots are shown from the trailer](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04/05/02/69489227-11940065-No_one_No_one_is_coming_to_rescue_us_Tom_says_plainly_before_mor-a-51_1680659199063.jpg)
No one: 'No one is coming to rescue us,' Tom says plainly before more action-packed shots are shown from the trailer
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