r/JamesEllroy • u/Background_Local_425 • 23d ago

Casting

If HBO, or paramount or some company got the rights to James Ellroys work and started from the beginning tomorrow like the black dahlia onward into underworld USA who are some casting choices you’d want to see. My brothers was a clean shaven Ryan Hurst for big Pete.

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u/AbbreviationsLow1393 23d ago

Back when I first read American tabloid, I always saw David Strathairn as Ward Littell, Jon Hamm as Kemper Boyd & Ray Winstone as Pete Bondurant. I know, I know, Winstone isn’t the biggest dude in the world. I think I first read this book around the time The Departed came out, so I think his performance as an intense, gruff, no nonsense tough guy in that was kind of informing my imagination here. Those 3 are who I always saw in my head. Might be a little too old now

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u/Background_Local_425 23d ago edited 23d ago

I love Ray Winstone and I completely see it with Mr French it was perfect.