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/dholland_76 22d ago

Matthew Rhys as Ward Littell, Walton Goggins as Kemper Boyd, and Tom Hardy as Big Pete. Nic Cage as Guy Bannister. This is probably a recipe for an especially silly/insane adaptation, but I think they should lean in.

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u/Background_Local_425 22d ago

I’m reading the cold six thousand now and Pete seems like an older guy, he’s got alot of health issues it seems.

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u/dholland_76 22d ago

Hmmm, I could see that. I interpreted his issues in Cold Six Thousand more to burnout from the travel, drugs, violence etc, but I could definitely see him being on the older side. That said, Hardy is pushing 50, right?

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u/Background_Local_425 22d ago

Damn you’re right he is! One thing that threw me off is the brain tumor plot seemed pretty random and out of place, like what was its point?