First Teaser Poster for Killing Them Softly

A new teaser poster — but a really effective one — for Killing Them Softly has been released (right; click for larger version).

The film stars Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan in an adaptation of George V. Higgins's 1974 crime novel Cogan's Trade.

Little is known about the film's storyline — adapted by the director Andrew Dominik — but we're assuming it follows closely that of the book: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer for the New England mob. When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Cogan is called in to "handle" the problem. Moving expertly and ruthlessly among a variety of criminal hacks, hangers-on, and bigger-time crooks, Cogan gets to the root of the problem and, with five consecutive shots from a Smith & Wesson thirty-eight Police Special, restores order to his corner of the Boston underworld.

Killing Them Softly opens in theaters September 21st, 2012.