White Jazz

[Brian in Mesa]

Joe Carnahan Helming White Jazz
Source: CHUD
October 30, 2006

Narc director Joe Carnahan (the upcoming Smokin' Aces) will direct a big screen version of James Ellroy's White Jazz next November, reports CHUD.

"The film I'm doing next is 'White Jazz,' the sequel to L.A. Confidential," he said. "My brother and I wrote the adaptation."

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Update:

Variety says George Clooney will star in White Jazz, the Warner Independent Pictures adaptation of the James Ellroy novel, which Clooney and Smoke House partner Grant Heslov have boarded as producers. Matthew Michael Carnahan wrote the script.

In White Jazz, Clooney will play a dirty LAPD vice squad lieutenant whose mastery at skirting the rules gets tested when he's set up by his crooked bosses to be the fall guy for a murder. The movie will begin production in early 2008.