At this point I don’t think anyone is really expecting all that much from Ruben Fleischer‘s Gangster Squad. From its initial announcement, over the course of casting and into production my expectations began to wane. Then Warner Bros. kept moving it all around the release calendar and things sort of came crashing down once the Aurora, Colorado shooting took place and the decision was made to cut a theater shooting scene from the film.
Now set for a January 11, 2013 release, Warner Bros. has revealed the first poster for the film since reshoots took place.
Starring a cast of thousands including Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Michael Pena, Anthony Mackie and Emma Stone, 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.
Check out the poster directly below.
