Mel Gibson Returns to Directing with ‘Hacksaw Ridge’

It’s been ten years since Mel Gibson directed his last film, Apocalypto, but now he’s back in the director’s chair for the World War II biographical drama Hacksaw Ridge.

The film is based on a true story and stars Andrew Garfield as US army medic and Seventh-day Adventist Desmond Doss. Check out the official synopsis from Lionsgate:

HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The trailer for the film was released Thursday and shows Doss at odds with his superiors and fellow recruits, who see Doss as weak and a coward.

“With the world so set on tearing itself apart, doesn’t seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together,” Garfield’s character says in the trailer.

Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths also star in the film. Watch the trailer below:

Hacksaw Ridge arrives in theaters November 4, 2016.