Strike Back Star Joins Gangster Squad

Aussie actor Sullivan Stapleton has joined the cast of Ruben Fleischer's period police saga "The Gangster Squad" says  Heat Vision

Based on a series of LA Times articles, the true story tale follows a secret "off the record" police task force in the 1940 who pursued high-profile gangster Mickey Cohen a member of the so-called Jewish Mob

Will Beall, a former LAPD officer who patrolled South Central and wrote the novel L.A. Rex penned the script.

Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling Michael Peña Josh Brolin Holt McCallany Giovanni Ribisi Robert Patrick and Anthony Mackie Mireille Enos also star. Emma Stone will play a woman caught between Gosling's good cop character and Penn's character.

Sullivan will play a mob enforcer-turned-police informant who is the childhood friend of Gosling’s character

Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are producing the film Shooting kicks off this Fall