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# Warner Bros. to Recut 'Gangster Squad' After Colorado Shooting

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Sean Penn as Mickey Cohen and Josh Brolin

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Jul 23, 2012 5:03 PM UTC

_Updated 5:00 p.m._

Life—so tragically—has imitated art even before that art takes to the silver screen, prompting a scramble within Warner Bros. to determine how to handle an Aurora, Colorado-like scene in _Gangster Squad_.

The star-packed gangster movie—which stars Sean Penn, Amy Adams and Ryan Gosling—tells the story of gangster Mickey Cohen’s Los Angeles rampage in the 1940s and contains a pivotal scene, which was also a key feature of the trailer, depicting mobsters firing on a theater audience from behind the screen.

(**PHOTOS:** [Aurora, Colorado, Movie Theater Shooting](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/20/batman-movie-theater-shooting-in-aurora-colorado/#aptopix-colorado-shoot4))

The movie’s attack has the violence erupting on unsuspecting filmgoers, with automatic gunfire blasting through the white screen and throwing the theater into chaos. With filmgoers scrambling for exits and police rushing to the theater, the raw emotion of such a scene prompted Warner Bros. to yank the trailer before all _Dark Knight Rises_ showings (and even from the web).

But delaying trailers may just be the first step, [the _Los Angeles Times_ reports](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-gangster-squad-dark-knight-rises-shooting-20120720,0,7973410.story), as Warner Bros. is mulling how to proceed. Studio officials met today to discuss whether to remove or edit the shooting scene or to change the Sept. 7 release date.

Unfortunately for Warner Bros., the theater scene isn’t just an add-in, but actually plays a key role in the flow of the film, so any tampering to that portion could also require some reshooting as a work-around.

_Gangster Squad_ was originally set for an Oct. 19 release, so at least pushing it out of September seems likely at this point, but, in the end, it may come down to test screenings and focus groups to determine what audiences will tolerate and how difficult the _Gangster Squad_ violence will be to stomach, now that it isn’t so fictional anymore. But the _Times_ also reports that a test screening planned for later this month may even get pushed back. Of course, the studio could always decide to proceed with the debut but cancel any publicity, like advance screenings and celebrity interviews.

[_Variety_ reports](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118056910) that the studio has cut the sequence and ordered reshoots to patch the hole.

**MORE:** [Shooting Puts Aurora On the Map in a Bad Way](http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2120098,00.html)

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