The actor is back behind the camera for a star-studded adaptation.
The final trailer for Ben Affleck’s Live By Night has been released.
“Powerful men don’t have to be cruel. I got one guaranteed life. I was gonna live it. I had a plan,” Affleck’s character, Joe Coughlin, says in the voiceover.
Affleck wrote and directed the crime thriller Live by Night, based on Dennis Lehane’s 2012 prohibition era novel of the same title. He also directed the adaptation of Lehane’s Gone Baby Gone.
Live by Night is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson (The Ides of March, Orphan). Zoe Saldana, Sienna Miller, Chris Cooper, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina and Elle Fanning also star.
The official film synopsis:
What you put out into this world will always come back to you, but it never comes back how you predict. Taking fatherly advice is not in Joe Coughlin’s nature. Instead, the WWI vet is a self-proclaimed anti-establishment outlaw, despite being the son of the Boston Police Deputy Superintendent. Joe’s not all bad, though; in fact, he’s not really bad enough for the life he’s chosen. Unlike the gangsters he refuses to work for, he has a sense of justice and an open heart, and both work against him, leaving him vulnerable time and again—in business and in love. Driven by a need to right the wrongs committed against him and those close to him, Joe heads down a risky path that goes against his upbringing and his own moral code. Leaving the cold Boston winter behind, he and his reckless crew turn up the heat in Tampa. And while revenge may taste sweeter than the molasses that infuses every drop of illegal rum he runs, Joe will learn that it comes at a price.
The film debuts nationwide on January 13th, 2017.
