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 555: The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)

Episode 555: The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)

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Episode 554: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Episode 554: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

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Special Report: Jeff Goldblum

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Episode 553: Flash Gordon (1980)

Episode 553: Flash Gordon (1980)

Chris Bricklemyer (Outside the Cinema) and Scott Weinberg (The Overhated Podcast) join Mike to wrap up 2021 with a discussion of Mike Hodges's 1980 film Flash Gordon. The episode features interviews w...

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Special Report: Julia (2021)

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Special Report: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

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In a special cross-over episode with The Kulturecast, Mike and Chris talk about the latest entry in the Matrix series, Matrix Resurrections. Our reaction may surprise you. Learn more about your ad cho...

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Episode 552: Black Christmas (1974)

Episode 552: Black Christmas (1974)

Maitland McDonagh and Mark Begley join Mike to talk about Bob Clark’s 1974 film Black Christmas. It’s the story of a sorority house where a killer has sneaked into the attic and slowly picks off sever...

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Special Report: Wojnarowicz (2020)

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Director Chris McKim celebrates the confrontational and controversial artist David Wojnarowicz in the 2020 documentary Wojnarowicz: F*ck You, F*ggot F*cker. On this special episode Mike speaks with Mc...

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