Warner Bros mulls changes to Gangster
Warner Bros is rethinking its plans for the film Gangster Squad in light of a scene featuring a movie-theater shooting, but beyond that Hollywood executives expect little fallout from the mass killing at a Batman screening on Friday in Aurora, Colorado.
Officials at Warner Bros were expected to meet on Monday to discuss whether to remove or edit the Gangster Squad shooting scene, or to change the Sept 7 release date for the film starring Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling, a person familiar with the discussions said.
On Friday, Warner Bros yanked Gangster Squad trailers after a gunman killed 12 and wounded 58 at a midnight premiere of another Warner film, The Dark Knight Rises. Trailers had included the scene in which men open fire with machineguns on an audience in a movie theater.
