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"Nick Nolte has signed up for director Ruben Fleischer&amp;#039;s period crime drama Gangster Squad. The actor joins Sean Penn, Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribisi, Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling in the movie, Deadline reports. Nolte&amp;#039;s character Bill Parker is the new police chief who is told to sort out a corrupt Los Angeles police department in the 1940s. Fleischer is directing from Will Beall&amp;#039;s adaptation of Paul Liebermann&amp;#039;s series of news articles for the Los Angeles Times on crime during the decade. Gangster Squad will focus specifically on the police department&amp;#039;s pursuit of notorious gangster Mickey Cohen, to be played by Penn. Nolte is also currently attached to Taylor Hackford&amp;#039;s Parker, Idea in America and Robert Redford&amp;#039;s The Company You Keep. The 70-year-old actor recently admitted that he has a new love of martial arts after being introduced to the sport while shooting the boxing drama Warriors. Watch a trailer for Warriors below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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