The concluding volume of the Lloyd Hopkins' trilogy — Ellroy's contemporary (re: 1980s) treatment of an L.A.P.D. detective, has been adapted for film by author Edward Bunker. In a 2002 interview with Woody Haut, author of Heartbreak and Vine, Bunker spoke of the difficulty in adapting Ellroy — "his structure is hard to...adapt" — but declared the resulting script, "A great script, one of the best I ever wrote." Bunker told Haut he wrote the script in the early 1990s for a French-Algerian producer (Samuel Hadida) who has sat on it despite a host of interested directors who've said, "'This is great. Let's do it.'"
