Sean Penn is a Hawaiian shirt-wearing action star in the first official trailer for Pierre Morel’s “The Gunman,” released Thursday by Open Road.
The action film casts Penn as Jim Terrier, an international spy trying to clear his name who is forced to go up against his former friend, played by perennial bad guy Javier Bardem (“Skyfall”).
“We did some bad things,” Penn tells his love interest, Jasmine Trinca (“The Son’s Room”). “I did some bad things.”
Bardem, who apparently didn’t see what Penn can do with a sniper rifle in the first third of the trailer, kidnaps his female friend and holds her hostage.