The film – written by former LAPD officer Will Beall and based on a series of articles by LA Times writer Paul Lieberman – follows the exploits of an elite squad of police officers tasked with keeping East Coast organized crime figures out of Los Angeles during a time of increased crime and corruption in the 1940s. According to Variety, Cranston will play Max Kennard, “a laconic LAPD officer from Texas who enforces the law ambitiously.” He joins an impressive cast that includes his DRIVE co-star Ryan Gosling, as well as Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Michael Peña, and Anthony Mackie.
Cranston is currently filming on ROCK OF AGES and TOTAL RECALL. He can be seen this weekend in the Tom Hanks/Julia Roberts feel-good movie LARRY CROWNE, and then this September in Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE.