Carter Burwell has signed on to score next year’s crime drama Gangster Squad. The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less) and stars Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Josh Brolin, Nick Nolte, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi and Michael Pena. The movie is based on L.A. Times’ seven-part series Tales of the Gangster Squad written by Paul Lieberman, which chronicles LAPD’s struggle with crime and corruption in the 1940s by forming a unit called Gangster Squad to keep organized crime figures from the East Coast out of Los Angeles. Will Beall (Castle) is adapting the material for the screen. Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes), Kevin McCormick (Arthur, The Lucky One) and Michael Tadross (Cop Out) are producing the project. Gangster Squad is scheduled for a release on October 19, 2012 by Warner Bros.
Burwell also has the final Twilight film Breaking Dawn – Part 2 coming up next year. The movie is once again directed by Bill Condon and will be released on November 16, 2012. To learn more about Burwell’s score for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, which is now available on Atlantic Records, visit our previous article.
