While it doesn’t look like Ben Affleck‘s “Live By Night” will do much in the awards race, the actor/director’s ambitions for the movie are fairly low key. Speaking in New York City this week, the man behind the Dennis Lehane adaptation revealed that he hopes to simply entertain.
“I wanted to pay homage to those movies, not only in the 30s and 40s, but the 60s and 70s as well — one of those crowd pleasing, big, blockbuster movies — something with big costumes, and a lot of extras, and great sets, that transported you to another time, another era, another feeling,” Affleck said (via The Pavlovic Today).
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Co-starring Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, Sienna Miller, Brendan Gleeson and Chris Cooper, “Live By Night” tells the story of Joe Coughlin, the son of a cop who finds himself slipping into a life of organized crime. And as you can see from the photos below, Affleck is keeping his word that no detail from the Prohibition era hasn’t been lovingly brought to the big screen.
“Live By Night” opens in limited release on Christmas Day and goes wide in January.
