Trailer Released for Mel Gibson Thriller ‘Blood Father’

Mel Gibson is returning to the big screen as a father who seeks to protect his daughter from a drug cartel that is out to get her in the action thriller Blood Father.

Check out the film’s synopsis below:

After her drug kingpin boyfriend frames her for stealing a fortune in cartel cash, 17 year old LYDIA goes on the run, with only one ally in this whole wide world: her perennial screw-up of a dad, JOHN LINK, who’s been a motorcycle outlaw, and a convict in his time, and now is determined to keep his little girl from harm and, for once in his life, do the right thing…

Jean-François Richet directed the film, which also stars Erin Moriarty, Michael Parks, William H. Macy and Diego Luna. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Peter Craig, who penned the film along with Andrea Berloff.

Blood Father opens in theaters August 12. Watch the trailer below: