Last night Warner Bros. premiered a new photo along with a new international trailer for Ruben Fleischer’s The Gangster Squad featuring Sean Penn getting trigger-happy as 1940s gangster Mickey Cohen, a former boxer who became an associate of Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel.
The film is set in Los Angeles, 1949, and is based on Paul Lieberman’s seven-part “Tales From the Gangster Squad” series centered on the Los Angeles Police Dept.’s struggle with increasing crime and corruption in the 1940s, when the department formed the Gangster Squad to keep East Coast organized crime figures from planting roots. Cohen is the group’s prime target.
Gangster Squad hits theaters on September 7 and along with Penn the film features Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Michael Peña, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Holt McCallany, Emma Stone, Robert Patrick, Mireille Enos, Nick Nolte, Troy Garity and Frank Grillo.
