Warner Bros. has released thefinal trailerfor the upcomingLive By Night, which could be an early awards season candidate. Oscar winnerBen Affleck(Argo) directed and stars in this dramatic crime thriller.Affleckalso wrote the screenplay, based on the award-winning best-seller byDennis Lehane. This film marks the second collaboration for the fellow Boston natives, following the acclaimed dramaGone Baby Gone.
What you put out into this world will always come back to you, but it never comes back how you predict. Taking fatherly advice is not inJoe Coughlin’s nature. Instead, the WWI vet is a self-proclaimed anti-establishment outlaw, despite being the son of the Boston Police Deputy Superintendent. Joe’s not all bad, though; in fact, he’s not really bad enough for the life he’s chosen.
Unlike thegangstershe refuses to work for, he has a sense of justice and an open heart, and both work against him, leaving him vulnerable time and again-in business and in love. Driven by a need to right the wrongs committed against him and those close to him, Joe heads down a risky path that goes against his upbringing and his own moral code. Leaving the cold Boston winter behind, he and his reckless crew turn up the heat in Tampa. And while revenge may taste sweeter than the molasses that infuses every drop of illegal rum he runs, Joe will learn that it comes at a price.
Starring withAffleckareElle Fanning(Maleficent),Brendan Gleeson(In the Heart of the Sea, theHarry Potterfilms),Chris Messina(Argo,The Mindy Project),Sienna Miller(American Sniper,Foxcatcher),Zoe Saldana(Guardians of the Galaxy,Avatar), and Oscar winnerChris Cooper(Adaptation,The Town).Live by Nightis produced byLeonardo DiCaprio(The Wolf of Wall Street,Out of the Furnace) andJennifer Davisson(The Ides of March,Orphan), under the Appian Way banner; andBen AffleckandJennifer Todd(Alice in Wonderland,Across the Universe) for Pearl Street Films.Chris Brigham,Dennis LehaneandChay Carterare serving as executive producers.
AWarner Bros.Pictures presentation, an Appian Way/Pearl Street production,Live By Nightis currently slated forlimited releaseon August 21, 2025, and wide release on August 18, 2025. It will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. Check out the second trailer forLive by Nightbelow.
