CHARLESTON — Danny McBride’s production company is no stranger to stories of larger-than-life characters.

There’s Jesse Gemstone, the hot-headed eldest son of a Southern televangelist in “The Righteous Gemstones ," and Kenny Powers, the arrogant former professional baseball player in “Eastbound & Down.”

And now Patrick McCollum — a former carnival worker, jewelry designer for the Queen of England, kung fu master and chaplain to serial killers. The California resident, in his fresh life calling as an international peace maker, is the focus of Rough House Picture’s newest collaboration to hit the screen, “The Man Who Saves the World?”

The film by Gabe Polsky documents his encounter with McCollum as they journey to South America. There, McCollum believes he is destined to fulfill an anc

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