From imdb.com

'LA Confidential' Sparks Two Sequels


The creative team and original stars from cult movie LA Confidential are in talks to re-team for a sequel to the movie, going head-to-head with another sequel starring George Clooney. Director Joe Carnahan is also directing a follow-up to the film based on author James Ellroy's book White Jazz. According to entertainment website Tmz.com, another sequel is being planned by the film's original director Curtis Hanson. Hanson's version wouldn't rely on the plot of White Jazz and would instead pick-up where LA Confidential ended. The sequel would reunite original stars Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce and Kim Basinger, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in LA Confidential.

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so apparently there will be 2 movies: one based on the book White Jazz starring George Clooney and one directed by curtis hanson and starring the LA Confidential cast.
That will be kind of confusing. and I think they should make The Big Nowhere first....

thoughts?

I don't think I read White Jazz - were the LA Confidential characters in it?

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none of the main ones, no.

his books are very loosely following one another... the characters that stay the same are mainly more minor department people... and they move in chronological order. thats it really.

i think for the true blue sequel, they would just write something totally original based on the main characters from LAC, not an ellory book. i dont know how i feel about that. i adore that movie almost like no other. def one of my top five ever DONT MESS WITH A GREAT THING.

I love the original, so with Curtis Hanson and the same cast on board I am rather excited.

Dudley Smith and Ed Exley appear in White Jazz.
Dudley Smith features in The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. You can get the books all together as the Dudley Smith trilogy.

the word sequel was enough to induce a
I mean it could be really good, but its like Hollywood made it down the movies that begin with the letter L for sequel possibilities. Please, movie people, make it worth my 8euros this time.....

sequels always end up being shite but it may have a shot if Hanson is directing.
I still think they should adapt the Big Nowhere into a film. maybe an HBO miniseries since it's so long and would not be done any justice by being condensed into a 2 hour movie.
And I always thought that >>> <<< would be good to play Claire De Haven. Maybe not so much now

I loved the first one so much.

i thought that too, but then i got to thinking...... its so dense, and the form doesnt really fit that of a movie. i wont drop any spoilers, but the huge event that happens all little past halfway.. movie audiences couldnt really deal with that i d ont think. it was even jarring as hell for readers of the novel. and more in a more traditional structure like that of a movie....ouch. that would have to go. they would have to change quite a bit. and to get lucky enough to end up with an adaptation as stellar as brian hellgeland's for LA.C, i dunno that would be like lightening striking twice.

I get to feeling it's a bad idea. But if they're good, well that's just great.

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