Gerard Butler Gets Payback in “Law Abiding Citizen” Trailer

Overture Films has released the first trailer for their upcoming thriller Law Abiding Citizen, which stars Gerard Butler as a man out for revenge. The trailer begins with an incredibly derivative story — a man (Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered. But when one of the two killers strikes a deal with a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor (Jamie Foxx), he takes the law into his own hands.

F. Gary Grayis directing a script by Kurt Wimmer, whose credits also include “Ultraviolet” and “Equilibrium.” Michael Gambon, Viola Davis and Regina Hall is co-star.

“Law Abiding Citizen” hits cinema on October 16.