Netflix turned down a sequel for Oscar-winning film “L.A.
Confidential” — with one executive allegedly falling asleep during the pitch meeting.Screenwriter Brian Helgeland claimed to Deadline during a Toronto International Film Festival interview (below) that a Netflix exec nodded off while Helgeland was presenting the 1970s-set film pitch to the streaming platform.“[Author] James Ellroy and I worked out an elaborate pitch for ‘L.A.
Confidential 2’ that takes place during the Patty Hearst [era], when the Symbionese Liberation Army came down to L.A., and we had Guy Pearce attached and Russell [Crowe] and Chadwick Boseman playing a young cop working for Mayor Bradley,” Helgeland said.
“We pitched it to everyone.
We had to go to Warner Bros.
first and Warner Bros.
is like, ‘We don’t make movies like this.’”The “Mystic River” scribe continued, “Ellroy is a performance artist and he would do the pitch; and it was the most amazing pitch.
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