Jake Gyllenhaal has a Debt to Pay in Trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

After Disney’s Aladdin and The Gentlemen, director Guy Ritchie looks to be delving into a new kind of genre with his upcoming film The Covenant starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim.

A new trailer for the movie just dropped, and it has Gyllenhaal playing a soldier on a quest to find his savior and return the favor. Watch this:

Here’s the synopsis for the film:

The Covenant, follows Sgt. John Kinley (Gyllenhaal), who is on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan when he is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed to survey the region. When their unit is ambushed on patrol, Kinley and Ahmed are the only survivors and with enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Back on U.S. soil, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given passage to America as promised.

Determined to protect his friend and repay his debt, Kinley returns to the war zone to retrieve Ahmed and his family before the local militias reach them first.

If you’ve followed Guy Ritchie’s films, you’ll know that The Covenant feels very different from what he usually does. Ritchie is probably best known for his British crime comedies featuring an ensemble cast with films like Snatch, RocknRolla, and The Man from UNCLE. Admittedly he has been branching out to different genres lately with Aladdin and the Sherlock Holmes films, but you wouldn’t know The Covenant was being helmed by Ritchie unless they said so in the trailer.

Either way, I’m interested to see where Ritchie goes with the film. Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant is set to release on April 21.