Frank Darabont has had to change the title of his new TNT TV series, originally called L.A. Noir, thanks to the video game L.A. Noire. For his return to TV following being ousted from The Walking Dead, which he developed and was the initial showrunner on, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter chose to adapt the John Buntin book L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City – set in the 1940s and 50s and focusing on Los Angeles' cops and criminals. That book came out in April 2010, a year before L.A. Noire was released, but in a new interview with io9, Darabont reveals there were still some huge legal difficulties with using the L.A. Noir title for TV.
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