Live by Night
Live by Night is a 2016 American gangster film written, directed, produced by and starring Ben Affleck. Based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the film follows an ambitious Ybor City bootlegger (Affleck) who becomes a notorious gangster. The film also stars Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldaña, and Chris Cooper.
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| Running time | 129 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Box office | $22.7 million
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Joe Coughlin: This is heaven. Right here. We're in it now.
- 10 years after Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone (2007).
- Ben Affleck and Scott Eastwood both appeared in Suicide Squad (2016).
- Jennifer Lawrence and Lindsay Lohan were considered for the lead roles.
- By the time this movie is in theaters, three actors in this movie that have been in at least one comic book movie. Zoe Saldana would be in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). Scott Eastwood would be in Suicide Squad (2016). Ben Affleck would have been in the latter film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017).
- This will be the second of four Dennis Lehane adaptations that Leonardo DiCaprio is producing. The first adaptation was Shutter Island (2010), the third is Running Out of Dog and the fourth is The Deep Blue Good-By.
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