Giovanni Ribisi Goes ‘Gangster’ for Warner Bros.

The “Saving Private Ryan” actor joins Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin in Ruben Fleischer’s 1940s-era mob film

Giovanni Ribisi will play Conway Keeler, a police officer, in Warner Bros.' "The Gangster Squad," TheWrap has confirmed.

He joins Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin and Michael Pena.

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The movie's about Mickey Cohen, the Brooklyn-born gangster who was sent to Los Angeles by Meyer Lansky to keep an eye on Bugsy Siegel. Cohen became a mob kingpin himself in the 1940s, and at one point fired rounds from two .45-caliber handguns into the ceiling of the Hotel Roosevelt lobby.

Ruben Fleischer is directing and Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are producing the movie, which is based on a series of articles by Paul Lieberman. "L.A. Rex" author Will Beall wrote the script.

Deadline first reported the news.

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