

“I had all of this energy to tell a big, epic L.A. And so you learn that it’s possible to do something that is really well-liked but is not going to happen. “The people who decided not to make it a TV show thought it was a great TV show, but that’s not the metric that you use. Confidential’ to television,” says Harper during a phone call from his Eagle Rock home.

“I got the chance of a lifetime to try and bring James Ellroy’s ‘L.A. The TV pilot didn’t get picked up, didn’t become a TV show. With a strong cast, a talented director, and rich source material, the project seemed like a winner. After spending years writing on CBS’s “The Mentalist,” Jordan Harper landed a dream project: Developing James Ellroy’s “L.A.
