A TV show adaptation of Chinatown has reportedly been in the ... talking we agreed we wouldn’t try to replicate [villain] Noah Cross. But we did want to keep in mind that the crimes that history ...

including Mulwray's former business-partnership with Evelyn's father, Noah Cross. The identity of the unknown woman may be the key to uncovering the whole story.

It's Chinatown." -- is uttered by Lawrence Walsh ... Katherine after shooting her incestuous, diabolical dad, Noah Cross, who fathered Katherine with her. It's just so damn nasty all around.

Chinatown could not be a place you could actually ... "When David and I first started talking we agreed we wouldn't try to replicate Noah Cross," Towne says about the villain of the series.