First look: Josh Brolin en Sean Penn in Gangster Squad
Hieronder vind je de eerste officiële promotiefoto voor Gangster Squad van regisseur Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland). We zien Josh Brolin als een politieman in Los Angeles die de befaamde gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) onder schot houdt. In september plaatsten we overigens ook al enkele foto's.
De film is gebaseerd op een reeks artikelen in de LA Times van Paul Lieberman over hoe de politie van LA in de jaren '40 een speciale politieenheid oprichtte om de maffia uit het Oosten buiten de deur te houden. Naast Brolin en Penn zijn er rollen voor Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Nick Nolte, Michael Peña en Giovanni Ribisi.
Regisseur Fleischer zei onlangs het volgende tegenover EW:
Weve taken some creative license but tried to stay true to the original story and characters as much as possible. OMara (Josh Brolin), our lead character, has just come back from fighting the Nazis with all these ideals after seeing America at its greatest. And hes come home and theres a gangster running his city. While he was gone, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) took over and he turned the streets of L.A. into a battle zone. In our story, O Mara takes the lead of the Gangster Squad, a vigilante police force that fights the gangsters on their own terms, and the battle between them is for the future of Los Angeles: whether its going to become corrupt and run by this bunch of gangsters or these guys who fought for these values and want L.A. to be the shining beacon on the west coast that it was always intended to be.
Ryans character also went to war, but when he came back, he was a little disillusioned. So hes more on the fence, hanging out in nightclubs and hanging out with guys who might be gangsters. Hes less clear on where he stands in terms of standing up against Mickey Cohen.
Gangster Squad staat in Nederland gepland voor 19 oktober 2012
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