David Fincher and James Ellroy Team Up for HBO Noir Drama
Director David Fincher and crime novelist James Ellroy, who wrote The Black Dahlia, have teamed up to develop a new noir crime drama for HBO. It's about time these two talents came together to bring us something. I always thought they should develop something together.
Fincher was actually developing a film adaptation of The Black Dahlia before Zodiac came along and stole the director from it. The news comes from The Playlist who reports that “Fincher and Ellroy are talking to HBO, and planning a noir-ish crime show set in L.A., in a similar 1950s milieu (like Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential).”
It'll be great to see a series like this from these two talents. Ellroy is a fantastic writer full of all kinds of crazy, interesting information about the history of crime in Los Angeles, and Fincher is one of the best directors working today. They will make beautiful TV together.