It looks like Warner Bros. has found their Gangster Squad director. After looking high and low with the likes of Ben Affleck, Scott Cooper, and Darren Aronofsky, they have landed on Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer. The have “begun negotiations” on the film that is based on “on a series of articles by Paul Lieberman and was scripted by Will Beall, a former South Central Los Angeles cop who wrote the novel L.A. Rex.” [Deadline]
The film, compared to The Untouchables and L.A. Confidential, tells “the story of the Los Angeles Police Department fighting gangland wars and trying to stem the invasion of East Coast Mafia in the 1940s and ’50s is a complicated tale filled with colorful characters — an origin story, in a sense, of modern Los Angeles.”
Ruben Fleischer next has the buddy comedy 30 Minutes or Less hitting theaters this summer, with Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, and Aziz Ansari.
What do you think about this directorial choice?