Although Warner Bros had planned to bring DC Comics’ greatest heroes together for a Justice League movie, the studio couldn’t find a way to get it off the ground. Marvel took a slightly different approach with uniting their heroes for The Avengers by first having them star in their own films, as opposed to getting all the characters together with no back story.

As the years have passed, WB was able to release three Batman movies, one Superman movie, and one Green Lantern movie. Only Nolan’s Batman franchise was able to make significant numbers that would stretch out into a trilogy while the other two quickly faded away. But with the final chapter of Nolan’s Batman film coming to a close, what will the studio do to keep DC movies alive?

It’s being reported that Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Ryan Gosling have all entered into negotiations to star in Warner Brothers’ upcoming crime drama, Gangster Squad.

Penn would play Mickey Cohen, a former boxer who became a top mobster in 1930s-1940s Los Angeles. Gosling and Brolin would play two police officers out to find and stop Cohen after a string on innocent people are harmed and killed by the hands of the mobster.