Director Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland in negotiations at the helm GANGSTER SQUAD
Fleischer was one of the possible candidates named for the concert in November, along with Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) and José Padilha (Tropa de Elite). Deadline reports that the survey has begun negotiations with director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland). The project (which has also been called “Tales from the Gangster Squad,” but Time refers to him simply as “Gangster Squad”) has also attracted the attention of Ben Affleck and Darren Aronofsky.Warner Bros. big search director Gangster squad may be coming to an end.
Former LAPD Will Beall (Castillo) wrote the script, which focuses on the sergeant. John O’Mara and his attempts to overthrow the gangster Mickey Cohen in the 1940’s. The Gangster Squad tone has been compared to The Untouchables Confidential and Los Angeles. Hit the jump for a brief review of other projects Fleischer.
The film reunites with her Fleischer Zombieland Jesse Eisenberg lead and also stars Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, and Michael Peña.Fleischer is currently working on the comedy of 30 minutes or less, which is about two would-be offenders requiring a pizza delivery man to rob a bank losing in 30 minutes or less.
Fleischer said that also includes 3DThere are also Zombieland 2, which I imagine will affect both action and comedy. Fleischer also binds to an untitled action-comedy-cop friend, and another action comedy called Babe in the woods, which was written by Mike White (School of Rock) and is a freshman women Midwest who comes to Yale University and became a target of the Mafia in New Jersey.