WHITE JAZZ START 06/06/2007 at 10:32 AM
While not official, it looks like we start shooting December 10th. Lot of work ahead. I want this thing tighter than a snare drum. I’m really going to endeavor to get the script up on-line. I know I say that sh*t all the time but there’s invariably some [...]

From Joe Carnahan’s Personal Blog “Smokin’ Joe Carnahan”
Clooney is filming the Coen Bros. movie next and then he’s sliding into one of Klein’s Sy Devore suits and we’re beating the holy hell out of Eisenhower-era L.A. I am putting together a little show reel for WHITE JAZZ including some badass photoshop stuff of Clooney AS [...]

PEARCE’S EXLEY SHUT OUT OF L.A CONFIDENTIAL SEQUEL 
Pr-Inside: Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network Aussie movie star GUY PEARCE was shut out of returning for the L.A Confidential sequel - over a rights issue concerning his character. Director Joe Carnahan admits he had hoped to bring Pearce’s character, Ed Exley, back [...]

Here’s an excerpt from MTV’s interview with Joe. Click here to read complete interview.
MTV: But “White Jazz” is a far cry from “Narc” too. This is a James Ellroy cop flick. Carnahan: Absolutely. It would be great if I could make a 1950s L.A. cop film without a Tarantino reference. That would be pretty [...]

Here’s an excerpt from a recent interview with Joe Carnahan, White Jazz director.
So tell me about Los Angeles, 1958. What’s your vision of White Jazz? Is it going to be stardust-heavy, ‘Oh, look, there’s Lana Turner’ kind of vibe like L.A. Confidential had?
JC: I really wanna go, and I said this … someone asked me [...]

WHITE JAZZ VS. LA CONFIDENTIAL 2. By now you may have read in the trades that there’s some activity on the Ellroy front vis-a-vis a proposed ‘LA CONFIDENTIAL 2′ that would star both Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce. I had heard about this a few months back as we had just closed our deal for [...]

Do you think you’d ever make another film that had Narc’s sort of gritty, low-budget style?
Oh absolutely. I think White Jazz [Carnahan's upcoming project with George Clooney] will be like watching an episode of Cops in 1958. I want to break the formality of those types of films — the idea that, because it’s the [...]

In the fall we brought you the news that Joe Carnahan would be directing an adaptation of White Jazz, James Ellroy’s sequel to LA Confidential. Later it was announced that George Clooney would be starring as dirty cop Dave Klein, sending interest in the film through the roof. Carnahan has said that he would like [...]

Film Journal has an article in which it states a new film date for White Jazz. “In November, he’ll start production on White Jazz, a period thriller adapted from the James Ellroy novel and starring George Clooney.”
Joe Carnahan confirms this himself on his blog in yesterdays (1/28/07) entry . “I’ve got two movies in front [...]

Later in the conversation, with the prefatory disclaimer that he knew he’d sound like a name-dropping douchebag for saying so, [Joe] Carnahan went ahead and said, “Clooney once told me, ‘I think I’ve got maybe just another five years of being Clooney.’ I think he’s being too modest. But, the point is we all have [...]