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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Episode 718: Avanti Popolo (1986)

Episode 718: Avanti Popolo (1986)

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Episode 717: Angel Face (1952)

Episode 717: Angel Face (1952)

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Special Report: Dash Mihok on Armor (2024)

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22 Marras 202418min

Episode 716: Woman on the Beach (1947)

Episode 716: Woman on the Beach (1947)

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20 Marras 20241h 13min

Special Report: The Birthday (2004)

Special Report: The Birthday (2004)

Mike welcomes filmmaker Eugenio Mira to discuss his 2004 darkly comic thriller The Birthday. Starring Corey Feldman, the film unfolds at an eerie party in a mysterious hotel, revealing a strange world...

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Special Report: Bill Burke... The Optimist

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Mike welcomes Bill Burke, former TCM executive and founder of The Optimism Institute, for a deep dive into cinema’s power to inspire and uplift. Drawing from Burke’s mission to champion optimism and c...

12 Marras 202432min

Special Report: Steve Newburn on Sasquatch Sunset (2024)

Special Report: Steve Newburn on Sasquatch Sunset (2024)

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11 Marras 202423min

Special Report: Mark Edlitz on Movies Go Fourth

Special Report: Mark Edlitz on Movies Go Fourth

Mike sits down with Mark Edlitz to dive into Movies Go Fourth, Edlitz’s latest exploration of film history that focuses on fourth installments in beloved movie franchises. Together, they explore the u...

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