James Harvey
10-29-2001, 10:43 AM
Here's some wicked news from www.comingsoon.net :
According to Variety, John Cusack and Nick Nolte will star in a $28 million "L.A. Confidential" follow-up to be directed by Robert Richardson ("JFK," "Snow Falling on Cedars," "Casino"). The film, titled "White Jazz," will be based on James Ellroy's novel of the same name.
The following is a description of Ellroy's novel:
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.
Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.
This is SWEET!
According to Variety, John Cusack and Nick Nolte will star in a $28 million "L.A. Confidential" follow-up to be directed by Robert Richardson ("JFK," "Snow Falling on Cedars," "Casino"). The film, titled "White Jazz," will be based on James Ellroy's novel of the same name.
The following is a description of Ellroy's novel:
Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.
Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.
Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.
This is SWEET!