‘Gangster Squad’ trailer highlights L.A. landmarks
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The first trailer for ‘Gangster Squad’ reveals that the upcoming period mafia movie’s biggest star may not be a fedora-clad Ryan Gosling or a fatally pouty Emma Stone, but the gritty city of Los Angeles.
Directed by Ruben Fleischer and based on a series of Los Angeles Times articles called ‘Tales from the Gangster Squad’ by Paul Lieberman, ‘Gangster Squad’ depicts an elite Los Angeles Police Department crew charged with keeping East Coast mafia man Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) and his gang from taking over 1940s and ‘50s L.A.
Shot in and around the city late last year, the film also stars Gosling, Josh Brolin, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie and Michael Pena as members of the squad.
‘Los Angeles is a damsel in distress and I need you to save her,’ a gravel-voiced Bill Parker (Nick Nolte) says to John O’Mara (Brolin) in the action-heavy trailer, which features shots of downtown L.A.’s City Hall, a gunfight inside Grauman’s Chinese Theater, an explosion on the L.A. River, a CGI-altered Hollywood, a Craftsman and a Spanish-style home and the cover of the L.A. Examiner.
The trailer also reveals a peek inside Slapsy Maxie’s, a popular 1940s and ‘50s Hollywood nightclub that the filmmakers re-created inside an abandoned grocery store in Bellflower.
‘Gangster Squad’ is due in theaters later this year.
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--Rebecca Keegan
