Episode 774: Cop (1988)

Episode 774: Cop (1988)

Noirvember closes with James B. Harris’s Cop (1988)—the first time James Ellroy’s feverish fiction hit the big screen. Mike teams with Andrew Nette and Rod Lott for a deep read of Harris’s adaptation, where James Woods’s unhinged Detective Lloyd Hopkins hunts a killer across eighteen years of buried violence.

The trio digs into Ellroy’s original novel Blood on the Moon and the wilder, abandoned incarnation that came before it—L.A. Death Trip, the unsold, manuscript that first birthed Hopkins. Using material from Ellroy’s own accounts and critical studies (including the brute-force early drafts, the rewrites demanded by Otto Penzler and Nat Sobel, and the shift to publishable structure), the conversation maps how a doomed finale turned into a tight serial-killer pursuit.

The episode also features a new interview with James B. Harris, who breaks down the challenges of translating Ellroy’s structure, keeping Hopkins’s mania intact, and staying faithful to the narrative rhythms of the novel. What emerges is a portrait of a filmmaker wrestling with source material born in chaos—reforged into the dark, abrasive thriller that helped spark decades of Ellroy adaptations.


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Special Report: Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited (2019)

Special Report: Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited (2019)

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Special Report: McBeardo's Teen Movie Hell

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Episode 416: Daughters of Darkness (1971)

Episode 416: Daughters of Darkness (1971)

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Episode 415: The Mad Max Series

Episode 415: The Mad Max Series

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Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux

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Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux: Bob Murawski

Special Report: Other Side of the Wind Redux: Bob Murawski

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Episode 414: Outland (1981)

Episode 414: Outland (1981)

Peter Hyams’s Outland (1981) plays like a Western in space with Sean Connery as Marshall W.T. O’Neil, the head lawman at a rough and tumble mining colony where a mysterious series of deaths puts him a...

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Special Report: Cinetopia 2019

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