A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : HUH? : The Makings of a Trilogy, Maybe?

No one has officially announced a movie based on the Rodney King case, but there is talk in Hollywood that a drama loosely patterned on the videotaped police beating of the Altadena motorist is in development at Robert Lawrence Productions.

That’s assuming, of course, that “Black and Blue” isn’t really about vampire cops.

A draft of a script with the working title “Black and Blue” is expected to land on the desk of Roger Birnbaum, president of worldwide productions at 20th Century Fox Film Corp., in about two weeks, but whether the story parallels the King affair is unclear.

It all seems to depend on whom one asks.

Fox describes it as an action cop movie that takes place in Los Angeles and involves a young sheriff’s deputy. A high-ranking studio executive insists: “It is not the Rodney King story.”

Toby Haggerty, manager for the film’s scheduled director, Mario Van Peebles, describes it as a “hard-edged” police drama: “It is a Rodney King-type story. . . . It addresses racial issues.”

Then there is Baseline, the widely used entertainment industry computer database. Its synopsis goes like this: “After being bitten by a vampire, a police detective becomes an improved cop and better lover.”

Matthew Chuck, a researcher at Baseline, said it appeared that the information was supplied by the production company, although there was no notation by the synopsis of who actually gave Baseline the information.

Haggerty was surprised at Baseline’s synopsis and stressed that there was no vampire being considered. “That is so far off it isn’t even funny,” she said. “It has nothing to do with vampires.”