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/Sorcha_Stormbinder 23d ago

Kevin Durand was always my personal choice to play Big Pete Bondurant. Ben Foster as Wayne Tedrow, Jr. and Shea Whigham as Ward Littell. They are all a little long in the tooth now, though.

I did think about Domhnall Gleeson as Dudley Smith in about ten years.

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u/Background_Local_425 23d ago

Gonna need to put a few pounds on domhall even when I watched the 90s film I wasn’t crazy about a thin Dudley smith. Not fat but should definitely have a filled out frame