Six Clips from GANGSTER SQUAD Starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, & Emma Stone
Six new clips from Ruben Fleischer’s upcoming crime drama GANGSTER SQUAD have been released. Based on a series of LA Times articles “Tales From the Gangster Squad” by Paul Lieberman, the film chronicles the LAPD’s attempts to take down mob king Mickey Cohen during the late 1940s. Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anthony Mackie co-star. Gangster Squad opens on January 11th.
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and–if he has his way–every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart. “Gangster Squad” is a colorful retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time.