The law of the night

1920s, the story tells about Joe Coglin - the prodigal son of the captain of the Boston police. After moving to Ibor City, Coglin becomes a bootlegger, and later a famous gangster.

Warner Bros. since 2013, she has developed the film “Live by Night” with Ben Affleck as a director, screenwriter, producer and performer of the role of Joe Coglin. The producers are also Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran ^[3] . On September 4, 2014, Sienna Miller , Zoe Saldana and El Fanning entered the cast of the film. ^[4] July 9, 2015 Warner Bros. gave the film "green light" and announced that production will begin in November 2015 ^[5] . August 28, 2015 it became known that Chris Messina is negotiating about the role of Dion Bartolo - Coglin's best friend and accomplice ^[6] . On October 20, 2015, Chris Cooper joined the cast. ^[7] November 2, 2015 Miguel signed up for the role of Esteban ^[8] . November 5, 2015 Max Casella got the role of Digger - the overly aggressive son of the mafia boss ^[9] . November 13, 2015 TheWrap reported that Scott Eastwood will play the brother of the hero Affleck ^[10] . November 18, 2015 Brendan Gleason received the role of the father of the heroes Affleck and Eastwood ^[11] . On November 23, Anthony Michael Hall joined the film as Gary Smith ^[12] . On December 1, 2015, it was reported that Titus Welliver would play the Tim Hickey film, the mafia boss and mentor Joe ^[13] .

Shooting

Filming began on October 28, 2015 ^[14] . In mid-November, filming took place in Lawrence , as well as in Boston on November 20 ^{[15] [16]} . From the beginning of December 2015, the filming took place in Los Angeles ^[17] .

The film is very coolly rated by film critics - its rating on the Rotten Tomatoes site is 35%, which is based on 225 reviews by critics, with an average score of 5.3 / 10 ^[18] .

On the Metacritic website , the film received 49 points out of 100, based on 43 reviews ^[19] .

Also, the picture is deafeningly failed at the box office: with a budget of $ 65 million ^[20], global box office revenues were catastrophically low $ 23 million ^[21] .