![]() ![]() IT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED AS A MINISERIES. ![]() “Whenever there was a day when I didn't want to get up anymore, Curtis tipped the bed and rolled me out on the floor." 2. "He would turn down other jobs I would be doing drafts for free,” Helgeland said. Their passion for the material was clear, but it took two years to get the script done, with a number of obstacles. When he learned that Hanson already had it, the two met, and bonded over their mutual admiration of Ellroy’s prose. Meanwhile, Brian Helgeland-originally contracted to write an unproduced Viking film for Warner Bros.-was also a huge Ellroy fan, and lobbied hard for the studio to give him the scripting job. Confidential, and the characters in that particular Ellroy novel really spoke to him, so he began working on a script. Writer-director Curtis Hanson had been a longtime James Ellroy fan when he finally read L.A. ![]() Confidential, a film so complex that its creator (legendary crime writer James Ellroy) thought it was “unadaptable.” In the end, it was one of the most acclaimed movies of the 1990s, a film noir classic that made its leading actors into even bigger stars, and which remains an instantly watchable masterpiece to this day. On this day 20 years ago, a rising star director, a writer who thought he’d never get the gig, and a remarkable cast got together to make a film about the corrupt underbelly of 1950s Los Angeles, and the men and women who littered its landscape. ![]()
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