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Studio yanks teaser following TDKR screening shooting.
Please see an important update at the bottom of this report. Warner Bros. is pulling the trailer for its upcoming release Gangster Squad from theaters following today's shooting massacre in Colorado because the trailer features a sequence where gunmen open fire in a movie theater, killing audience members.
The trailer is playing before some prints of The Dark Knight Rises, another Warners movie and the film playing when the massacre occurred.
"A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. could not say whether the trailer will be re-cut to eliminate the offending footage," according to TheWrap. "Though the trailer had run prior to screenings of The Dark Knight Rises, it did not play before the Aurora screening."
The trailer remained widely available online at time of publish.
Gangster Squad is slated for release September 7, but it remains to be seen whether that will now be changed in light of today's tragedy.
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times reports that Warner Bros. may indeed cut or re-edit the controversial theater shooting sequence from Gangster Squad: "Studio executives are discussing the possibilities of pushing the release date and recutting the film to minimize the theater shooting scene or remove it altogether, according to two knowledgeable people not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. ... Cutting the scene won't be an easy task. It serves as a climactic moment, and even shortening it could hurt the noir action film's narrative arc. As a result, any significant changes might require shooting new scenes."
Please see an important update at the bottom of this report. Warner Bros. is pulling the trailer for its upcoming release Gangster Squad from theaters following today's shooting massacre in Colorado because the trailer features a sequence where gunmen open fire in a movie theater, killing audience members.
The trailer is playing before some prints of The Dark Knight Rises, another Warners movie and the film playing when the massacre occurred.
"A spokeswoman for Warner Bros. could not say whether the trailer will be re-cut to eliminate the offending footage," according to TheWrap. "Though the trailer had run prior to screenings of The Dark Knight Rises, it did not play before the Aurora screening."
The trailer remained widely available online at time of publish.
Gangster Squad is slated for release September 7, but it remains to be seen whether that will now be changed in light of today's tragedy.
UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times reports that Warner Bros. may indeed cut or re-edit the controversial theater shooting sequence from Gangster Squad: "Studio executives are discussing the possibilities of pushing the release date and recutting the film to minimize the theater shooting scene or remove it altogether, according to two knowledgeable people not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. ... Cutting the scene won't be an easy task. It serves as a climactic moment, and even shortening it could hurt the noir action film's narrative arc. As a result, any significant changes might require shooting new scenes."
