"Narc" director Joe Carnahan is set to bring cult author James Ellroy's "White Jazz" to the big screen. The acclaimed filmmaker (whose new film "Smokin' Aces" is due to open here next March) told the CHUD website that "White Jazz" should be his next project, adding "my brother and I wrote the adaptation."
The novel, which first hit the shelves back in 2001, is a follow-up to another Ellroy tale which has already made the successful transition from the printed page to the silver screen: "L.A. Confidential". Set in the late 1950s "White Jazz" follows corrupt LA cop Dave Klein, a man who smells a rat when he's charged to head up an investigation into a narcotics squad.