Film
955: Gangster Squad
Trivia: Ashley Greene, Teresa Palmer, Camilla Belle, Aly Michalka, Lily Collins, Emmy Rossum, Amanda Seyfried
and Maggie Grace auditioned for the role
of Grace Faraday.
Bryan Cranston was cast as Max Kennard but dropped out due
to scheduling conflicts with his other movie, Argo.
Adam Brody, Joel Edgerton,
Luke Evans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were on the short list for the part
of Sgt. Jerry Wooters but Ryan Gosling
was cast.
The
original trailer for this movie was pulled after the Aurora, Colorado Century
16 massacre due to a shot in which four gangsters fire machine guns through a
projection screen into a crowded movie theater. Warner Bros. then ordered the
film back into production for a reshoot of the scene, necessitating a
rescheduling of the film's release and rewrite of the script.
Sean Penn went through 3 hours of makeup each morning.
In the
movie, the Gangster Squad is assembled to go after Mickey Cohen. However, in real life Chief W.H. Parker set up the squad to prevent other gangsters
from taking over Cohen's rackets after Cohen went to prison on income tax
evasion. Whenever the squad learned that out-of-town gangsters were coming to
Los Angeles to try to set up new operations, the Gangster Squad would kidnap
them, beat them up (some rumors say torture) and then send them back to
wherever they came from with the warning that if they ever returned, they would
be killed.
De'aundre Bonds' first film role in ten years. He served
ten years in prison for manslaughter.
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