Mob City

Acclaimed filmmaker Frank Darabont "(Walking Dead, Shawshank Redemption)" brings 1940s Los Angeles to life in TNT's eagerly anticipated television event, Based on John Buntin's novel L.A Noir and Co- Ex. Produced by Michael De Luca and Elliot Webb also Produced by Alissa Phillips, Wayne Carmona, and Ryan DeGard Composed by Mark Isham comes Mob City. Based on the real-life accounts of the cops and gangsters of the time, this is the seductive story of the violent crime underbelly of America's most glamorous city and those who wanted to control it. Starring Jon Bernthal as Joe Teague, an ex-marine turned police officer caught in the conflict between Parker and Cohen, Edward Burns as Bugsy Siegel, one of the most infamous mobsters in Los Angeles, Neal McDonough as William Parker, the chief of the L.A.P.D. bent on taken down Cohen, and Jeremy Luke as Mike Hendry, Morrison's second in command. Mob City premieres December 4 on TNT.



Plot
The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.’s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and ’50s. It’s a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.

Main cast

 * Jon Bernthal as Joe Teague
 * Jeremy Luke as Mickey Cohen
 * Milo Ventimiglia as Ned Stax
 * Jeffrey DeMunn as Hal Morrison
 * Alexa Davalos as Jasmine
 * Neal McDonough as William Parker
 * Robert Knepper as Sid Rothman
 * Edward Burns as Ben Siegel
 * Gregory Itzin as Fletcher Bowron

Recurring cast

 * Andrew Rothenberg as Eddy Sanderson
 * Pihla Viitala as Anya
 * Ron Rifkin as Fletcher Bowron
 * Simon Pegg as Hecky Nash
 * Amin Joseph as "Skeety"
 * Ernie Hudson as "Bunny"