An exclusive shot from Gerard Butler's new action movie Gamer reveals how the berzerker's stay-at-home puppet master controls his every function. Time to step it up, Gerard and skinny user boy — zero kills is just pathetic.

In Gamer, Kable (Butler) is the poor death-row inmate sold into slavery in evil Michael C. Hall's real-life video game. Butler is a puppet for a wealthy user, competing in a first person shooter war game. The kid pictured above can literally step into Kable and control his every move, pinning him against other inmates. After a certain amount of never before reached wins, Kable gets his freedom.

Official synopsis:

Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler) from a game called "Slayers" looks to regain his independence while taking down the game's mastermind (Hall)

Here's the high res. version of that image:

Gamer will hit theaters September 4th.

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