So he bought a book, and taught himself to build Web sites. While the dot-com boom, which offered better job prospects, was then peaking, Mr. Fleischer moved in the late 1990s to San Francisco and bused tables. Fleischer said last month, as he picked at hash browns with melted cheese in the nearly empty Pacific Dining Car, a restaurant that has been serving police officers, politicians and their news-media observers, as the sign says, “since 1921.” “She wouldn’t even let me in a class,” Mr. He grew up in Washington, and went to Wesleyan University, where, he recalled, he was rebuffed by Jeanine Basinger, chairwoman of a film studies program that has produced the likes of Michael Bay and Joss Whedon.
Fleischer has made a career of showing up where he doesn’t quite belong.
In the same spirit “Gangster Squad” became an experiment in next-wave noir. That 2009 movie used London of the Victorian-Edwardian years for a romp through old technologies, like radio, rebooted with contemporary cool.
The project, he said, extended a process that began with “Sherlock Holmes,” a Warner Brothers film of which he was a producer. Lin recalled thinking when he persuaded Warner Brothers to acquire Mr. “If we do this right, it’s a contemporary gangster movie,” Mr. Beginning in 1946 its members were detailed to root out mob influence in Southern California, often by extralegal means, including warrantless wiretaps and rough treatment of suspects in alleys or on hilltops above Hollywood. It was organized informally but later institutionalized under Police Chief William Parker as the Intelligence Division.
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“Gangster Squad” is inspired by a newspaper series in which Paul Lieberman, writing for The Los Angeles Times in 2008, uncovered the gritty history of a real Gangster Squad. Fleischer and his collaborators - including the producer Dan Lin, who is a former Warner executive, and the writer Will Beall, an ex-homicide detective - follow that dark-tinted tradition. And, as early as 1954, when the real-life stories were still unfolding, Jack Webb directed himself in the first “Dragnet” film, with help from some of those who pursued Cohen. Warren Beatty played the criminally connected romantic lead in “Bugsy,” Barry Levinson’s 1991 film about Bugsy Siegel. Confidential,” which in 1997 became a film by Curtis Hanson. James Ellroy wrote of the period’s corruption in the novel “L.A. Fleischer has created the latest cinematic telling of the struggle between good and evil on the streets of Los Angeles, in a post-World War II era that was known for shady compromise between the two. Fleischer was not yet 2 years old.īut Mr. When Cohen, by then a relic, died in 1976, Mr. “He would have been thrilled to see a movie starring him had finally been made.” Penn as Cohen - battling felt-hatted cops played by Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and others - and is set for release by Warner Brothers on Friday.
He would have signed autographs, said Ruben Fleischer, who directed “Gangster Squad,” which features Mr. That particular billboard is near the spot where Cohen wound up in 1949, on the night when gunmen ambushed him in his Brentwood driveway, and he escaped by careening through the usually quiet streets, crouched under the dashboard of his Cadillac with one hand on the wheel.
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