WHITE JAZZ VS. LA CONFIDENTIAL

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 WHITE JAZZ. Ellroy and I actually spoke about it because they had asked him back into the loop to work on that script. As far as I know, they are pushing ahead and have asked us to change the Exley character’s name in WHITE JAZZ as New Regency apparently has the right. Those familiar with the book also know that ‘The Dud’ Dudley Smith is also featured prominently in it. We took the original LA CONFIDENTIAL into account when writing WHITE JAZZ so we opted to remove him from the story. Now that Exley looks like he’s out, it will really eliminate any incidental characters from WHITE JAZZ and allow it to be a stand alone and not dependant on the prior characters. WHITE JAZZ is still the last book in the quartet and while I wish everyone well on LA CONFIDENTIAL 2, I hope they bring some heavy sh*t to the table because my younger brother Matt wrote an absolute knockdown, drag-out version of WHITE JAZZ. I’m not throwing down any type of gauntlet here. I have the utmost respect for Hanson and Helgeland. The original is fantastic. Stylistically, they will be WILDLY divergent, that I can promise. Clooney as Dave Klein is going to rock a 1958 LA that you have never and will never, see again. (Joe Carnahan’s March 1st blog)

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