I am getting bombarded with amazing looking films this year. Here is a trailer for Ruben Fleischer‘s Gangster Squad starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Mireille Enos, Michael Pena, Robert Patrick, and Anthony Mackie. The film is about a squad of L.A. cops who declare war on an organized crime syndicate led by Mickey Cohen (Penn). You have to love a good gangster film, and I’m hoping this will be one for the books.
The trailer was just released. Check it out after the jump.
No release date yet. Check back soon.
Apple has the HD
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.