Gerard Butler’s new film London Has Fallen has been branded “insensitive” after its trailer was unveiled, days before the 10th anniversary of the July 7 bombings.

The teaser footage of the sequel to 2013′s Olympus Has Fallen shows the capital being bombed and destroyed, as Gerard’s Secret Service agent character Mike Banning fights off a new attack.

The trailer’s release also comes days after 30 British nationals were killed in the Tunisian beach resort of Sousse.

Philip Nelson – chairman of The Tavistock Square Memorial Trust, an organisation set up to remember the victims of 7/7 – said the timing of the trailer was wrong.

He told the Daily Mirror: “This is not the first time that Hollywood has been insensitive. If the story is about terrorism then this is extremely insensitive. People have also recently died of a terrorist attack in Tunisia.

“I have seen an image of Big Ben with the clock face blown out, that’s also insensitive. [Our Trust] has had lots of help from America, so I just think that these are the wrong images to portray.”

Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler
Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler (Yui Mok/PA)

He added: “Is the summer the best time to be promoting this film anyway?”

The film, directed by Babak Najafi, also stars Aaron Eckhart as US President Benjamin Asher – as well as Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett and Charlotte Riley.

It is scheduled to be released in 2016.

Film fans expressed their upset on Twitter.