Ruben Flesicher Becomes Director of “Gangster Squad”
Ruben Fleischer is going gangster. The “Zombieland” director will helm Warner Bros’ period cop movie “Gangster Squad,” pending working out where to fit a sequel to Columbia’s hit zombie movie. “Gangster” is based on a seven-part Los Angeles Times article written by Paul Lieberman centered on how in the 1940s, amid corruption and chaos, the LAPD created a unit called the Gangster Squad to keep the East Coast mafia out of the city. Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are producing while Lin Pictures’ Jon Silk is co-producing. Will Beall wrote the latest draft. Going period, and more dramatic, will be a new road for Fleischer, who hopped from the $24 million-budgeted contemporary undead action-comedy “Zombieland” to “30 Minutes or Less,” his upcoming action comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari. The move will also open up Fleischer to a bigger budget range and bigger stars.
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