Here's Gangster Squad's new trailer--the one unofficially dubbed "the trailer where there isn't all that shooting-up-a-theater stuff, because, well, you know." In light of the Colorado shooting, all the scenes involving gunfire in a theater have reportedly been removed from the picture, but this trailer should assure everyone that, otherwise, Ruben Fleischer's film seems to have its heavy violence in tact, with pretty much every non-sex scene involving some kind of Tommy gun, shotgun, handgun, exploding car, beating, and/or whatever violence happened to make Sean Penn's face look like that.
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Warner Bros. endless pursuit of a film adaptation of the arcade game Spy Hunter continues, now with a new director at the wheel that has those cool thumb buttons on top.
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Featuring the various growls and old-fashioney tough-guy voices of Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Michael Peña, Anthony Mackie, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick, and more (seemingly anyone who would put on a mustache and/or fedora, plus Emma Stone, to look good), Ruben Fleischer's 30 Minutes or Less follow-up, Gangster Squad, follows a group of cops working outside the system to run New York mobsters (mostly Penn's Mickey Cohen) out of Los Angeles. They accomplish this mostly by smashing, burning, and shooting things. Also, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone sleep together right under Sean Penn's weird nose, because a love as crazy/stupid as theirs cannot be limited to a single Steve Carell comedy.
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The funnyman from Human Giant, Funny People, and Parks & Recreation that your mom refers to as "the ethnic one" may have got himself a role in Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer's next action comedy, 30 Minutes or Less. Want to learn more? Let's continue then, Hollywood Reporter:
Written by Michael Diliberti and Matthew Sullivan, the Black List script revolves around a junior high history teacher (Ansari) and a pizza-delivery man who are forced to rob a bank when one of them is strapped to a bomb vest.
Danny McBride is rumored to be in negotiations to join the movie, playing one of the men looking to score some cash.
Hey, that sounds like a pretty good stoner comedy.
Wait a minute, there's no mention of it being a stoner comedy? How is a comedy about a junior high teacher and a pizza delivery guy forced to rob a bank not marijuana-based? Come on, guys, you can tell me if it's a stoner comedy. I'm not some square. I won't report you to the !?artnership for a Drug-Free America. I'm cool dad!
