GANGSTER SQUAD has added Nick Nolte to its cast, reports Deadline.com. He will play Bill Parker, the new L.A. police chief. The cast includes Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, Michael Pena, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi and Holt McCallany.

The story follows the special unit set up to stop gangster Mickey Cohen from bringing East Coast crime to the West Coast.

Ruben Fleischer (ZOMBIELAND) is directing. Former cop turned screenwriter Will Beall is adapting a script from Paul Lieberman's L.A. Times series. Dan Lin and Kevin McCormick are the producers alongside co-producer Jon Silk.