GANGSTER SQUAD - Cool Behind the Scenes Photos
Check out this cool series of behind the scenes photos from Ruben Fleischer's highly anticipated film Gangster Squad. The film has recently gone through some extensive reshoots due to the Colorado theater shooting, and the release date for the film was also delayed. It's now set to be released on January 11th, 2013.
The film stars Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie, Emma Stone and Sean Penn. I'm looking forward to finally being able to watch this movie! It looks like such a great film, and I love the story that it's based on.
Each of the photos include a description from Fleischer.
It was hard to re-create vintage LA—there are so many tall buildings now. We had to go to the outer reaches of the city, to neighborhoods like Sylmar.
Me and Nick Notle, who plays the police cheif, Bill Parker. In the script, he's likened to Richard the Lionheart. Only Nolte could pull that off.
A police chase ends with a crash through a skylight and directly into this studio during a pinup shoot with Bettie Page (played by Nancy McCrumb).
This was our very first day of shooting. Josh Brolin plays John O-Mara, a hard-nosed cop headed into the hornet's nest—mob boss Mickey Cohen's HQ. He's trapped in an elevator with two thugs, but he fights his way out.
One of my favorite locations: Clifton's, a real restaurant that's been in Los Angeles since the thirties. A time warp.
A turning point for Gosling's character: A little kid gets killed by Cohen's assassins ina shoot-out. This is when he decides to get on board—as it says in the script, "the long-sleeping cop comes to life."
The full squad: Brolin, Robert Patrick, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena, Gosling and Giovanni Ribisi. Six amazing actors—and some of the funniest dudes ever assembled.
In this scene, Ryan Gosling's character, Jerry Wooters (a cop), introduces himself to Grace Faraday, played by Emma Stone. Obviously they have great chemistry.
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. "The 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.