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L.A. Confidentialalmost got a sequel before Warner Bros. decided to pass on the film, according to screenwriter Brian Helgeland.
While speaking withThe Ringerfor an interview earlier this month, Helgeland, 60, chatted about potential plans for a follow-up to the 1997 crime film.
According to the outlet, Helgeland — who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1998 Oscars for the movie — would reunite original film costarsRussell CroweandGuy Pearce, alongside new additionChadwick Boseman, who would play a young police officer.
The story, perThe Ringer, would be set in the mid-1970s and would be crafted withL.A. Confidentialnovelist, James Ellroy.
“We worked the whole thing out,” Helgeland said. “It was great. And Warners passed.”
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L.A. Confidential, which follows a group of LAPD officers investigating a series of murders in the 1950s, was a critical and box office success.
The film became anine-time Oscar nominee— including for Best Picture — though it only won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress forKim Basinger’s performance as Lynn Bracken.
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Back in 2012, director Luca Guadagnino was set to helm a prequel movie, titledThe Big Nowhere, though it never came to be. Similarly, a television pilot based on the film from Ellroy, 73, was shot for CBS, though the network passed on it and plans to get it to another network did not work out, the outlet added.
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Should Helgeland ever get the opportunity to pitch hisL.A. Confidentialsequel once more, plans would have to change, however, given that Bosemandiedback in 2020.
“It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” theInstagram postsaid. “Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV.”
“A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. FromMarshalltoDa 5 Bloods, August Wilson’sMa Rainey’s Black Bottomand several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.”
In addition to his starring role in the blockbuster Marvel movies, Boseman is also known for portraying several historical figures, including Jackie Robinson in42, Thurgood Marshall inMarshalland James Brown inGet On Up.
source: people.com
