By now you’ve likely seen hours of coverage of the horrible shooting in Colorado during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. One of the more eerie parts of that story is that prior to the shooting a trailer played for Gangster Squad featuring a scene involving a shooting within a movie theater. Obviously that trailer seems insensitive in the aftermath of what is the worst shooting in American history, so Warner Bros. (which produced both The Dark Knight Rises and Gangster Squad) worked into the early hours to have that trailer pulled from circulation.
But it seems Warner Bros. is taking even more precautions: according to Entertainment Tonight, the studio is cutting that scene from the film entirely and replacing it with immediate reshoots. They will have to be done quickly: the film is still scheduled to be released on September 7.
This won’t be the first film this year which has been affected by news about a shooting: the Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn comedy The Watch, originally titled Neighborhood Watch, had been retitled and its marketing retooled following the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida. As for Gangster Squad, some may feel that the Colorado shooting doesn’t justify changing the content of the film since there was no way the filmmakers could have imagined something this horrid actually happening. Either way I imagine the cut scene will end up on the Blu-ray, either as a deleted scene or as part of the original trailer.
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