![]() ![]() The sequel, which had cast late actor Chadwick Boseman as a young police officer, would be set in the mid-1970s after the original film’s 1950s period. Confidential” co-screenwriter Brian Helgeland revealed that actors Crowe and Guy Pearce were in talks to reprise their respective roles in a follow-up story developed with author Ellroy. Oscar winner Luca Guadagnino was attached to direct prequel film “The Big Nowhere,” with rumblings of a sequel film being confirmed in 2021. The film, which is based on James Ellroys 1990 novel of the same name, follows an investigation into a series of homicides in 1950s LA and also stars Kevin Spacey, David Strathairn, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, and James Cromwell. Confidential” television series pilot starring Kiefer Sutherland shot for CBS in 2018 before the network passed on it. ![]() He gave me the gift of my words in a luminous new form,” Ellroy wrote.Įllroy previously backed an “L.A. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on. I don’t make movies, Curtis Hanson didn’t write novels. a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. The author noted the film serves as “a primer on novels-as-film” in general, and detailed how his “dramatic sense” was “always at odds” with director Hanson’s vision. I also like Elroys first novel Browns Requium. Many of the characters were first introduced in an earlier work, Clandestine, which is also a hell of a book. ![]() ![]() Russell Crowe Credits Cannes Trip with Saving Him from Early Career Typecastings LA Confidential is one of 4 books, the 'LA Quartet' that included Black Dahlia, the Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, and White Jazz. ![]()
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