Is it wrong to want the gangsters to win?

Not that I have anything against the Gangster Squad but seriously Sean Penn is a stick of dynamite with a lit fuse, how can he not win??

The official trailer for Ruben Fleischer’s the Gangster Squad was released a few days ago and it looks pretty sweet. It’s set in a time where the gangsters were bad so the cops needed to be worse.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beall and based on the series of L.A Times articles “Tales From the Gangster Squad” by Paul Lieberman, the film tells the story of Police Office John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) who has been tasked with taking down the notorious crime boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). In order to do this, O’Mara needs good men to help him, and that’s where Sgt Jerry Wooters (Ryan … Read More »

Thanks to EW.com the first official pic from Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad has been released and it looks….yeah ok.

Is it just me or does the image look a little photoshopped? Like the background has just been digitally inserted. Now, maybe it’s just me but it really distracts me from admiring the whole picture. It’s entirely possible that the background HAS been digitally inserted but, ideally, I shouldn’t be able to tell…

The goofy grin on Penn’s face just makes him look like an idiot and Brolin’s menacing scowl just kind of makes him seem a tad heavy-handed.

Is it just me? Does it actually look good?

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Thanks to EW.com the first official pic from Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad has been released and it looks….yeah ok.

Is it just me or does the image look a little photoshopped? Like the background has just been digitally inserted. Now, maybe it’s just me but it really distracts me from admiring the whole picture. It’s entirely possible that the background HAS been digitally inserted but, ideally, I shouldn’t be able to tell…

The goofy grin on Penn’s face just makes him look like an idiot and Brolin’s menacing scowl just kind of makes him seem a tad heavy-handed.

Is it just me? Does it actually look good?

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As you probably know I am really looking forward to Gangster Squad (if not, some of my other articles are here) just because I love a good gangster flick and this one looks like it’s shaping up to be something awesome!

What do we know so far?

The film is based on a series of 8 articles written for the LA Times by Paul Lieberman that focussed on the creation of a special Police unit called the Gangster Squad whose objective was to keep the city free of the East Coast Mafia in the 1940′s and 50′s.

Who’s in it?

It’s pretty much a veritable who’s who of Hollywood, check it;

Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, and Anthony Mackie.

Sean Penn is playing real-life gangster Mickey Cohen and Ryan Gosling is Sgt Jerry Wooters, the cop in … Read More »

As you probably know I am really looking forward to Gangster Squad (if not, some of my other articles are here) just because I love a good gangster flick and this one looks like it’s shaping up to be something awesome!

What do we know so far?

The film is based on a series of 8 articles written for the LA Times by Paul Lieberman that focussed on the creation of a special Police unit called the Gangster Squad whose objective was to keep the city free of the East Coast Mafia in the 1940′s and 50′s.

Who’s in it?

It’s pretty much a veritable who’s who of Hollywood, check it;

Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, and Anthony Mackie.

Sean Penn is playing real-life gangster Mickey Cohen and Ryan Gosling is Sgt Jerry Wooters, the cop in … Read More »

Written by: Russell

Well, it looks like the Ruben Fleischer directed film The Gangster Squad has made up for the loss of Bryan Cranston…the addition of the T-1000 himself, Robert Patrick.

Empire reports today that Robert Patrick is in final negotiations to join the cast of The Gangster Squad in the role that was recently going to be played by Bryan Cranston until he had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts. The role is LAPD officer Max Kennard, a Texan officer who’s laid back attitude to life disguises his hard working life.

As awesome is Bryan Cranston is, Robert Patrick is a character actor who can hold his own against others on screen. Just look at his dramatic performances in Cop Land and TV’s The Sopranos.

Are we excited?

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Written by: Russell

Well, it looks like the Ruben Fleischer directed film The Gangster Squad has made up for the loss of Bryan Cranston…the addition of the T-1000 himself, Robert Patrick.

Empire reports today that Robert Patrick is in final negotiations to join the cast of The Gangster Squad in the role that was recently going to be played by Bryan Cranston until he had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts. The role is LAPD officer Max Kennard, a Texan officer who’s laid back attitude to life disguises his hard working life.

As awesome is Bryan Cranston is, Robert Patrick is a character actor who can hold his own against others on screen. Just look at his dramatic performances in Cop Land and TV’s The Sopranos.

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Written by: Stoic Taco

It looks like Emma Stone’s career is set to soar with her being offered the lead female role in Ruben Fleischer’s The Gangster Squad, starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, and Josh Brolin.

According to Reuters the role Ms Stone has been offered is Jean, a woman who is romantically entangled with two men on opposite sides of the law. The two men are Mickey Cohen(Sean Penn) and “the police officer who is chasing him down”. Now that doesn’t exactly give me a whole lot to go on but I have to assume it’s Ryan Gosling or Josh Brolin.

Emma Stone, soon to be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man as Gwen Stacy, has made quite a name for herself in a relatively short amount of time since Superbad, and I am sure that it won’t stop here.

More power to you … Read More »

Written by: Stoic Taco

It looks like Emma Stone’s career is set to soar with her being offered the lead female role in Ruben Fleischer’s The Gangster Squad, starring Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, and Josh Brolin.

According to Reuters the role Ms Stone has been offered is Jean, a woman who is romantically entangled with two men on opposite sides of the law. The two men are Mickey Cohen(Sean Penn) and “the police officer who is chasing him down”. Now that doesn’t exactly give me a whole lot to go on but I have to assume it’s Ryan Gosling or Josh Brolin.

Emma Stone, soon to be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man as Gwen Stacy, has made quite a name for herself in a relatively short amount of time since Superbad, and I am sure that it won’t stop here.

More power to you … Read More »

Written by: Stoic Taco

The news today is that Anthony Mackie has officially joined the cast of The Gangster Squad!

It’s been rumoured for awhile that Mr Mackie would be joining the cast but it’s been officially confirmed by /film!

Anthony Mackie, last seen in The Adjustment Bureau, will be playing Rocky Washington, an ex-cop and first African-American LAPD lieutenant who is recruited to work within the Gangster Squad.

I’ve got to say that Mr Mackie will probably have a leg up on everyone else in this film because he spent the majority of The Adjustment Bureau running around wearing a fedora, so that’s at least one thing he doesn’t have to worry about…

So the official lineup for this film is as follows; Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen, Ryan Gosling as  Sgt Jerry Wooters, Josh Brolin as John O’Mara, Michael Pena as Navidad Ramirez, and now Anthony Mackie as … Read More »