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Frank Darabont’s Noir Drama For TNT Getting A New Title

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday January 26, 2013 @ 12:22am PSTTags: Frank Darabont, L.A. Noir

When TNT announced last fall it had ordered six episodes for Frank Darabont’s new pilot based on John Buntin’s book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America’s Most Seductive City, the series was untitled. Darabont had been leaning toward L.A. Noir as a title, but he told the website io9 in an interview posted this week that the videogame company Rockstar squelched that idea with threats of litigation. The “company with the video game called L.A. Noire threatened to sue the shit out of me, TNT, every company that actually ever worked in Hollywood”. The series remains untitled because TNT hasn’t settled on one yet, but Darabont said “I do believe the title is going to be Lost Angels”. TNT’s head of programming Michael Wright described the project as “a sweeping tale of the battle for the soul of the city that was waged between the forces of the LAPD and the West Coast mob” — similar to territory covered by the feature Gangster Squad that was based on a different book. 

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Frank Darabont’s ‘L.A. Noir’ Picked Up To Series At TNT With Six-Episode Order

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 12:02pm PDTTags: L.A. Noir, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

TNT has given a series order to Frank Darabont‘s period drama pilot L.A. Noir, which has been picked up for six episodes. Based on the book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America’s Most Seductive City by John Buntin, the project chronicles the battle between Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker and mobster Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of LA.s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and ’50s. It’s a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make LA its West Coast base.

Related: Frank Darabont’s ‘LA Noir’ Nears Series Order At TNT

Darabont, who wrote and directed the pilot, is executive producing with Michael De Luca and Elliot Webb for in-house TNT Originals. Alissa Phillips of Michael De Luca Prods co-executive produces. “This series is an intense, exciting drama that takes viewers back to a truly fascinating time in the history of Los Angeles,” said TNT’s head of programming Michael Wright. “Frank Darabont, Michael De Luca and Elliott Webb have delivered an outstanding opening episode that evokes the time and place in stunning detail.” Read More »

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‘Heroes’ Alum Milo Ventimiglia To Star In Frank Darabont’s TNT Pilot ‘L.A. Noir’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 4:52pm PSTTags: Frank Darabont, L.A. Noir
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In his first cable series gig, former Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia is set to star in Frank Darabont’s TNT drama pilot L.A. Noir,  a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and ’50s. He is expected … Read More »

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TNT Orders Frank Darabont Noir Drama Pilot Produced By Michael De Luca

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 9, 2012 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: Frank Darabont, L.A. Noir, Michael De Luca, TNT
Nellie Andreeva

L.A. Noir, the spec script Frank Darabont started shopping shortly after his ouster from AMC’s The Walking Dead, has landed at TNT with a pilot order. The project is based on John Buntin’s book L.A. Noir: The Struggle For The Soul Of America’s Most Seductive City, which chronicles the epic battle between Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker and mobster Mickey Cohen. In addition to writing, Darabont is set to direct the pilot and will executive produce with Michael De Luca (The Social Network, Moneyball ) and Elliot Webb (Tall Time Tales). TNT Original Prods will produce. Read More »

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