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 639: The Night of the Following Day (1969)

Episode 639: The Night of the Following Day (1969)

Adam Schartoff and Joseph Aisenberg join Mike to talk about about the 1969 film The Night of the Following Day. Directed by Hubert Cornfield, the film is based on Lionel White’s novel, The Snatchers, ...

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Special Report: Ed Solomon on Full Circle (2023)

Special Report: Ed Solomon on Full Circle (2023)

Screenwriter Ed Solomon discusses his work with Steven Soderbergh including the new Max show, Full Circle. He also talks about his podcast, Word by Word, and spills the beans on why the sequel to Now ...

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Special Report: Reading of the Lost Ark Pt. 9

Special Report: Reading of the Lost Ark Pt. 9

On our long-delayed ninth chapter of "Reading of the Lost Ark", Mike talks with Howard Kazanjian about the J.W. Rinzler biography, Howard Kazanjian: A Producer's Life. They discuss working with Alfred...

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Episode 638: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Episode 638: Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

We conclude Sci-Fi July with a look at Robert Longo's Johnny Mnemonic (1995). The film was based on a story by and adapted by William Gibson and stars Keanu Reeves as the titular Mr. Mnemonic, a data ...

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Special Report: Nat Segaloff on The Exorcist Legacy

Special Report: Nat Segaloff on The Exorcist Legacy

Mike talks with author Nat Segaloff about his latest book, The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear, a comprehensive look at William Friedkin and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist and all of the film's...

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Episode 637: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Episode 637: Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Sci-Fi July continues with a look at Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017). It’s the story of K (Ryan Gosling). He’s a replicant experiencing memories where he thinks he’s the chosen one, a prod...

30 Elo 20232h 3min

Special Report: Todd Max Carey on tOuch Kink (2023)

Special Report: Todd Max Carey on tOuch Kink (2023)

Concluding coverage of Fantasia 2023, Mike talked with filmmaker Todd "Max" Carey about his documentary tOuch Kink, a look at the stigmatization of fetishism and BDSM.Get more information at http://ww...

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Special Report: Jamie Martin, Lead Editor

Special Report: Jamie Martin, Lead Editor

Mike fanboys about RuPaul's Drag Race again as he talks with Jamie Martin, Lead Editor.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/suppor...

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