Chadwick Boseman Could Have Starred In 'LA Confidential' Sequel

The news is likely to put fans of thrillers in a bad mood: 

could have had a sequel, but the studio that owns the rights simply… did not want it.

This is in any case what revealed to the site The Ringer Brian Helgeland, the co-writer of the first part with Curtis Hanson the director, adding that Chadwick Boseman had agreed to be the star.

“We worked on the whole project.

It was awesome.

But Warner refused, ”explained Brian Helgeland, clearly disappointed.

James Ellroy, the author of the original novel on which the first film is based, had worked on the project and the two lead actors, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce, had agreed to return to their roles as investigators.

Since then, Chadwick Boseman, who had collaborated with Brian Helgeland on the film

, has passed away, putting an end to any hope of seeing the project come to fruition.

Missed opportunity

LA Confidential

, released in 1997, is considered a film noir classic. The year following its release, it was nominated for nine Oscars, and won two, the first for Kim Basinger for Best Supporting Female and the second for Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson, for Best Adapted Screenplay. With a modest budget of $ 35 million, the film had grossed $ 126 million at the international box office.

Several

sequel or film projects

have failed over the years.

In 2012, Luca Guadagnino, the director of

, was chosen to

direct

a prequel called

, while James Ellroy had worked on a sequel in the form of a series, in 2018, refused by CBS after have produced the pilot.

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