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   Since I don't have you by Jonathan Kaplan (1993, USA)

  • Adaptation of the novel Since I don't Have You published in Hollywood Nocturnes
  • With James Woods (Mickey Cohen), Gary Busey (Buzz Meeks), Tim Matheson (Howard Hughes).
  • Broadcast in USA as an episod of the TV serie Fallen Angels (1993 on Showtime).
  • Broadcast in France in 1997.

His projects
  • James Ellroy will be the executive producer of the movie Detour for ABC.
    The TV movie is based on the autobiographical book Detour : A True Hollywood Story by Cheryl Crane, the daughter of Lana turner who killed her mother's gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, when only 14 years old.
    More news.

  • He signed a deal with Paramount to pen his first TV drama pilot, a project for NBC dubbed L.A. Sheriff’s Homicide.
    Info from Variety.

  • According to Bill Stoner, "James and I cocreated an idea for a TV series, L A Sheriff's Homicide. Paramount filmed a pilot last year with Miguel Ferrer as the leading detective. James wrote the script. We're hoping a network will pick it up this fall. James would write some of the scripts and I would do the technical advising. James would like HBO or Showtime, but Paramount would make more money with network. Networks seem to be afraid of it."

  • NBC has ordered a pilot of L.A Sheriff's Homicide with Miguel Ferrer. A pilot was shot in april 2000 around Los Angeles. The story revolves around Ellroy's dealings with the department's homicide division during his research for My Dark Places. NBC originally purchased the show as a two-hour TV movie-backdoor pilot in 1998, but the project was lost in the shuffle of management changes that hit the network in the fall of that year. Helping to resurrect the project was Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, who came aboard as an executive producer of the Paramount Network Television-produced series. Like Ellroy, Grammer has been affected by violent crime: both his father and sister were murdered.
    Latest news from Variety.

  • If you visit Paramount Pictures (the only major classic studio still located in Hollywood), you can see the building where the production staff of LA Sheriff's Homicide is. It's at the crossing of 9th Street and Avenue C, 50 meters to the left of the water tower. The studio where the Frasier's shooting takes place is just nearby.

  • 05/17/2000 : According to rumors from NBC, the network canceled the serie.

  • Ellroy to develop dramas for Scripps.

  • USA Network will produce "James Ellroy's Los Angeles," a miniseries that will weave together real and fictional characters as seen through the eyes of the author. The six- to 12-hour miniseries will air in September 2002. Robert Greenwald will direct. Robert is also working on the adaptation of My Dark Places.
Projects without him
  • HBO was creating a 13 episode mini-series based on L.A. Confidential. Supposedly it would focus on events prior to the movie and contain various Ellroy characters. James Ellroy said on KQED that the HBO series is being made over the objections of Hansen and himself. At a reading at The Booksmith in San Francisco, he said that neither he nor Curtis Hanson were involved in any way, and that the series pretty much kills any possibility of Hanson doing a theatrical followup, and that he thought the series would only cheapen the film.

  • The HBO's project is stopped and now FOX will produce this TV serie. Kiefer Sutherland will play Jack Vincennes. See also an article in Variety.

  • HBO is now developing a projet of miniseries about American Tabloid et Cold Six Thousand : read the interview of the screenwriter
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