EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has begun negotiating with Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin to star in
Gangster Squad, the Will Beall-scripted crime drama that will be directed by
Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer. Production will begin in the fall. Deadline
told you last month that the studio had offered two of the main roles to Penn and Gosling. The linchpin of the film is Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, which is the role that Penn is in talks to play. Gosling and Brolin are in talks to play two cops assigned to bring him down when the gangster's penchant for violence leaves the blood of innocents on the street. Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are producing.
Penn had become shaky on the role for a bit--he's also
in talks to star with Christian Bale in the Kurt Johnstad-scripted drama
The Last Photograph, which will be directed by
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo helmer Niels Arden Oplev for Dark Castle, but that pic doesn't start production till next spring --but things have worked out after all. For Penn, this could well be as memorable a gangster turn as when Robert De Niro played Al Capone in
The Untouchables. Cohen, a former ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has begun negotiating with Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin to star in Gangster Squad, the Will Beall-scripted crime drama that will be directed by Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer. Production will begin in the fall. Deadline told you last month that the studio had offered two of the main roles to Penn and Gosling. The linchpin of the film is Los Angeles mobster Mickey Cohen, which is the role that Penn is in talks to play. Gosling and Brolin are in talks to play two cops assigned to bring him down when the gangster's penchant for violence leaves the blood of innocents on the street. Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are producing. 
Penn had become shaky on the role for a bit--he's also in talks to star with Christian Bale in the Kurt Johnstad-scripted drama The Last Photograph, which will be directed by The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo helmer Niels Arden Oplev for Dark Castle, but that pic doesn't start production till next spring --but things have worked out after all. For Penn, this could well be as memorable a gangster turn as when Robert De Niro played Al Capone in The Untouchables. Cohen, a former ... Read More »
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