The pic was moved after the shooting tragedy in Colorado--Originally slated for September 7th, the film will now open four months later - on January 11th.
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 also star. Emma Stone plays a woman caught between Gosling's good cop character and Penn's character. Mireille Enos, star of the hit TV series The Killing co stars as Brolin's wife. Nick Nolte is Brolin's boss
A key sequence in the movie deals with a shoot-out at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in which mobsters use Tommy guns to blast their way up the aisles, through the lobby and out onto Hollywood Boulevard.
In the wake of the massacre, this scene was deemed insensitive. Since the scene is pivotal it could not be edited around, instead it is being reconceived. Now the scene takes place in L.A.'s Chinatown district.
The key players in the sequence - Gosling, Brolin, Mackie, Patrick, Troy Garity and Pena will come back for five days of night shoots.
Chinatown was chosen because it offers an iconic L.A. locale that can be transformed to look like the 1950's without much cost.
Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are producing the film.
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