While Anthony Mackie is often cast as the virtuous token black guy in ensemble pictures (see TheGangsterSquad, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, or The Adjustment Bureau), here he gets to cut loose a little playing a genuine rogue.
Within 24 hours, Warner Bros had pulled the trailer for GangsterSquad from cinemas, and the film's release date was pushed back by six months so the scene could be reshot.
The trailer, for "Gangster Squad, " a period crime film, had played before some "Dark Knight" screenings, but not in the Aurora Century 16 Theatre where the shooting took place.