Dennis Lehane’s Live By Night To Be Directed By Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck directed the Dennis Lehane novel Gone Baby Gone and is now in talks to direct yet another novel for the big screen called Live By Night. Still in the works, but he is set to write the screenplay and star in the film as well.

Set in Boston during the Prohibition, it centers around the main character Joe Coughlin, “who rebels against his cop father and becomes a career criminal, eventually joining a mobster. He rises up the ranks as the action moves to Tampa, Fla., then Cuba and features rumrunners, femme fatales, betrayals and good men committing plenty of sin.”