Ben Affleck dives back into another Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone) story, adapting his bestselling novel Live by Night for the screen. Affleck also directs and stars in Live by Night, a crime thriller set in the 1920s. In addition to Affleck, the cast of the Warner Bros Pictures film includes Elle Fanning, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, Max Casella, Anthony Michael Hall, and Titus Welliver. WB is targeting a January 13, 2017 theatrical release.
The Plot: Live by Night is set in the roaring `20s when Prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll. The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa’s steamy rum-running underworld.
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