Jonathan Rhys Meyers goes on a jungle voyage in new trailer for Edge Of The World... his first project after  DUI arrest last year

The official trailer for the upcoming film Edge Of The World was released on Thursday via the official Samuel Goldwyn Films YouTube account.

The Jonathan Rhys Meyers-starring film centers around Sir James Brooke, who left his position in the Bengal Army to lead a settlement in the jungles of Borneo and became the first White Rajah of Sarawak.

The forthcoming feature is set to be one of the troubled actor's more recently-released projects since his 2020 arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol, which followed his last stint in rehab in 2017. 

The trailer begins with the 43-year-old actor trekking through a jungle with a group of other explorers, and he can be heard remarking, 'I can only hope to make some great discovery here that will bring credit to my family's name.'

Brooke's team is then captured and brought before a local authority, who welcomes them and grants them permission to sail up a nearby river, on which they are assaulted with a flurry of arrows from unseen archers.

After the adventurer tells his team, 'we are on a voyage of discovery, not conquest,' he is convinced to take his armaments further up a river, where they use them on a small village.

However, after Brooke notices that the inhabitants of the settlement are unarmed and vulnerable, he begins protecting them, and saves one from execution.

For his sympathy, the British explorer is made the head of a settlement, which brings him into conflict with Pengiran Indera Mahkota, played by Bront Palarae, who questions his authority.

Afterward, Meyers' character is seen addressing his subjects, where he ominously tells them, 'to have peace, we must make war.'

Brooke is then advised by Colonel Arthur Crookshank, played by Dominic Monaghan, that he is not really a king and that the team should not be involved in the affairs of the local inhabitants.

To that effect, the adventurer attends a tribal dance where he is heard remarking, 'I've been living in a fantasy of my own making.' 

A rapid-fire montage of shots is then shown, during which a group of local inhabitants attacks a settlement and an overturned lamp sets off a fire that engulfs many of the surrounding buildings before a native's neck is slit by another soldier.

The trailer ends with Brooke, covered in soot, screaming and chopping at an unseen subject while he expresses, 'I must love the jungle, the beauty and the blood.' 

Edge Of The World is currently set to be released on June 21st.

Although Meyers appears to be keeping himself busy with work, the troubled actor has been dealing with the fallout from his November DUI arrest and previous stints in rehab for alcoholism.

The performer has been in and out of recovery programs ever since 2005, when he originally entered a treatment center for his struggles with substance abuse.

His subsequent stints in rehab over the years, with the most recent occurring in 2017, were intermingled with public incidents, including an instance where he was arrested after assaulting an airport lounge employee in Paris.

In November of last year, Meyers was arrested after he was involved in a single-car crash in Malibu and failed a sobriety test after officers arrived at the scene, although he was later released shortly after being booked.

The following January, Us Weekly reported that he had been formally charged with one count of driving under the influence of alcohol and another count of driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 percent or more.