L.A. Confidential Prequel THE BIG NOWHERE to get Film Adaptation

Author James Ellroy's novel The Big Nowhere is set to be adapted for the big screen. The story is a prequel to L.A. Confidential which was adapted into a film back in 1997. I'm a big fan of Ellroy's work, he also wrote The Black Dahlia, which was adapted into a film back in 2006, and White Jazz, which director Joe Carnahan has been trying to get into production. Ellroy is obsessed with the history of Los Angeles crime and murder and this series of books makes up his "L.A. Quartet" series.

The Big Nowhere is set in Los Angeles in the 1950's and features connecting storylines of various different characters that we were introduced to in L.A. Confidential. The story follows a Sheriff's deputy named Danny Upshaw as he hunts down a serial sex killer. At the same time he's also being forced to expose Hollywood communists. It will be directed by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (I am Love) and produced by Harry Potter producer David Heyman. This is a great book, and it should make for a solid movie! I'm looking forward to seeing this get adapted. 

Have you read any of Ellroy's work? I'm sure many of you have seen the movies, are you excited about this book finally getting its big screen adaptation?

Here's the description from the book:

Los Angeles, 1950 Red crosscurrents: the Commie Scare and a string of brutal mutilation killings. Gangland intrigue and Hollywood sleaze. Three cops caught in a hellish web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. Danny Upshaw is a Sheriff's deputy stuck with a bunch of snuffs nobody cares about; they're his chance to make his name as a cop...and to sate his darkest curiosities. Mal Considine is D.A.'s Bureau brass. He's climbing on the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and to gain custody of his adopted son, a child he saved from the horror of postwar Europe. Buzz Meeks-bagman, ex-Narco goon, and pimp for Howard Hughes-is fighting communism for the money. All three men have purchased tickets to a nightmare.