Earlier this week we featured the noir poster for Gangster Squad. Today we have a newly edited trailer released by the studio (embedded below). (The first trailer featured a scene of a shooting in a theater, which has now been cut.)
In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn). Sgt. Jack O'Mara (Josh Brolin) was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) a cynical maverick. About all they had in common was their obsession. So O'Mara set a trap to prove Mickey was a killer. And Wooters formed an alliance with Mickey's budding rival, Jack "The Enforcer" Whalen. Two cops — two hoodlums.
Their fates collided in the closing days of the 1950s, when late one night "The Enforcer" confronted Mickey and his crew. The aftermath would shake both LA's mob and police department, and signal the end of a defining era in the city's history.
Directed by Ruben Fleischer from an adapted screenplay by Will Beall, based on the book by Paul Lieberman, Gangster Squad opens in theaters January 11th, 2013.
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