Ben Affleck Looks Serious in New LIVE BY NIGHT Poster

Warner Bros. has revealed a new poster for Ben Affleck’s period crime drama Live by Night. In addition to writing and directing, Affleck stars as Joe Coughlin, a guy who, according to the poster, “was once a good man.” The film also stars Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Chris Messina, Sienna Miller, and Chris Cooper.

The poster and synopsis are below. Live by Night gets a limited release on December 25th before going wide on January 13th, 2017.

“Live by Night” is set in the roaring 20s when Prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies.  The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw.  But even among criminals there are rules and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll.  The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa’s steamy rum-running underworld.