Ben Affleck is a busy boy at the moment. He was in this year’s Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, was briefly in Suicide Squad, has shot the ensemble piece Justice League, has a film named The Accountant out in a matter of weeks and will now have a potential Oscar-magnet which he wrote and directed in cinemas by the end of the year.
It has been revealed that Live By Night, his adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel, will debut in a limited U.S. run on Christmas Day this year ensuring that it is eligible for the 2017 Academy Awards. It will then roll out to wider cinemas on January 13th, 2017 (it will release in the UK on the same day).
Here’s the synopsis from the original novel, which was first published in 2013.
Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma – and his life changes for ever.
That meeting is the beginning of Joe’s journey to becoming one of the nation’s most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America…
Warner Bros., who are releasing the film, must be quietly confident then? Here’s the latest trailer.
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