Emma Stone in talks to join 'The Gangster Squad'
Just as Warner Bros. prepares to open “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” star Emma Stone is in negotiations to reteam with co-star Ryan Gosling and her “Zombieland” director Ruben Fleischer for the studio’s period crime pic “The Gangster Squad,”Variety's Jeff Sneider and Justin Kroll exclusively report. Stone is in line for the role of Jean, a sharp-tongued siren caught in a love triangle with Gosling’s character and Sean Penn, who portrays famed mobster Mickey Cohen. The true story chronicles the LAPD's efforts to keep East Coast crime bosses out of 1940s Los Angeles.