Bradley Cooper to Star as Cop Who Ends Up at Jan. 6 in Sean Penn-Directed WB Film

Bradley Cooper is in talks to star in Sean Penn's next directorial effort, a film that chronicles the early life of a police officer who defended the U.S. capital on Jan. 6. Warner Bros. is in talks to acquire the film as a negative pickup, which would mark Penn's first narrative directorial effort since 2021's "Flag Day." Described as an unexpected story about friendship, the film is decidedly not a Jan. 6 movie, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap. But it does cover the life of a police officer who was there, and whose identity is being kept under wraps for now. And, however . . .