Jack Meade-Mullarky Rumored as Young Bosch

Rumors indicate Jack Meade-Mullarky may play a younger Harry Bosch in multiple flashbacks for Ballard season 2, marking the first major portrayal of the character outside Titus Welliver. The casting is unconfirmed and would lessen Welliver’s exclusive association with the role as he pursues other projects. Welliver is starring in MGM+’s The Westies, an 1981-set crime drama about the Irish Westies’ control of Hell’s Kitchen docks and their clashes and uneasy alliances with Gambino figures including John Gotti and Paul Castellano. Jamie Hector’s Jerry “J” Edgar continues to serve as a nuanced counterbalance to Bosch on screen. Separately, Michael Connelly is developing an Untitled Florida Task Force TV series based on his early crime reporting that could lay groundwork for a future Jack McEvoy adaptation.