After the brilliant one-two punch that was Gone Baby Gone and The Town, Vulture reports that Ben Affleck is being sought by Warner Bros. to direct Tales from the Gangster Squad, a chronicle of the LAPD's cops-for-hire who sought to bring down legendary L.A. gangster Mickey Cohen. Affleck would be working from a script by former South Central cop/novelist Will Beall, and, needless to say, I'm finding the idea of him doing this really exciting. It's thematically similar to his first two without the blue-collar Boston setting, and Affleck has proven can do gritty crime stories with the best of them. Time will tell, if he even accepts the project; assuming he does, let's hope it's more L.A. Confidential than The Black Dahlia.
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