Cormac McCarthy just turned in a spec script(!)

Smooth Lou · Post by **Smooth Lou** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:33 pm

http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/pulitze ... ec-script/

deadline.com wrote:EXCLUSIVE: While Cormac McCarthyגs novels have been turned into No Country For Old Men, The Road and All the Pretty Horses, heגs left the film adaptations to others. McCarthy has surprised everybody by writing his first spec screenplay. Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, the producing trio behind the adaptation of McCarthyגs Pulitzer Prize-winner The Road, have just closed a deal to take The Counselor off the table with a preemptive acquisition.

The terrain of the script is reminiscent of the rough and tumble world depicted in No Country For Old Men. The protagonist in The Counselor is a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation. While McCarthyגs ICM agents Binky Urban and Ron Bernstein were expecting McCarthy to deliver his next novel, he instead surprised them with the spec script before returning to the book. The producers moved quickly and spent their own money to buy it in a sizable deal. They tell me they will go looking for a filmmaker as they talk to financiers.

גThe spec falls smack in the middle of what everyone responds to with Cormacגs novels,ג Wechsler said. Steve Schwartz told me: גSince McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. Itגs a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles. McCarthyגs wit and humor in the dialogue make the nightmare even scarier. This may be one of McCarthyגs most disturbing and powerful works.ג The script is contemporary, and set in the Southwest.

SonnyCookout · Post by **SonnyCookout** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:54 pm

Sweet, wouldn't be mad if the Coen brothers directed this.

perlman · Post by **perlman** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:12 pm

Great news. I thought the Sunset Limited movie was ill.

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:15 pm

Pretty cool.
Actually in the middle of Blood Meridian for the first time right now.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:44 am

Tommy Bunz wrote:Pretty cool.
Actually in the middle of Blood Meridian for the first time right now.

I took a small hit before each reading session, and the difference was staggering. I recommend trying it, you may be surprised what you have missed. The nature of the book lends itself to spectacular (and deeply unsettling) imagery and emotions whilst high (in my own experience).

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:50 am

no shit? idk if i could read blood meridian high, would def get lost in the language

Spiccoli · Post by **Spiccoli** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:54 am

perfectprism wrote:
Tommy Bunz wrote:Pretty cool.
Actually in the middle of Blood Meridian for the first time right now.
I took a small hit before each reading session, and the difference was staggering. I recommend trying it, you may be surprised what you have missed. The nature of the book lends itself to spectacular (and deeply unsettling) imagery and emotions whilst high (in my own experience).

this is 112% bullshit. carry on...

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:04 am

^ How so? It would be incredibly bizarre behavior to lie about something like that.

I don't recommend getting really high, just a small hit to loosen the brain. I would literally read a passage, feel I missed something, take a hit and read again and be stunned by the amount of things I passed over.

eris · Post by **eris** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:29 am

perfectprism wrote:^ How so? It would be incredibly bizarre behavior to lie about something like that.

I don't recommend getting really high, just a small hit to loosen the brain. I would literally read a passage, feel I missed something, take a hit and read again and be stunned by the amount of things I passed over.

Rereading a passage tends to reveal missed moments regardless of ones state.

odium-LSC · Post by **odium-LSC** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:32 am

of course you missed a bunch of shit. You were high. This seems like a really dumb way to read a book IMO. Back to the topic at hand,

big fan of his work and would love for this to get made. Also, am I correct in remembering that they're making a Blood Meridian book? If so,

. With a side of

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:59 am

the first time i ever heard 'this is how we do it' on weed i came to the realization that montell said 'ever a since i was a lower case g'. thought it was 'never a before rented from penske'. either way he was transitioning into a 'big G' so you could see the mistake

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:28 am

I missed shit when I was straight, not high, odie..and point taken about the rereading itself but there's a big difference between missing a plot detail and missing a huge smattering of images..I fail at trying to impress just how monumentally different the experience was but I'm not a typical stoner, I'm a lover a literature above everything else and if you can't see the correlation between marijuana and a work/author grounded in poetics/stream of consciousness type sentence structure with a focus on imagery then you stay losing

LilLeftBrain · Post by **LilLeftBrain** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:37 am

^can't disagree w/ that

Y@k Bollocks · Post by **Y@k Bollocks** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:22 am

eris wrote:

Tommy Bunz · Post by **Tommy Bunz** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:22 am

odium-LSC wrote: of course you missed a bunch of shit. You were high.

Reading while high would never work for me. I can barely follow movies when I'm stoned.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:26 pm

Ridley Scott will direct "The Counselor" next, not the new Blade Runner movie. Production is expected to start in May.

The Counselor is being described as גגNo Country for Old Menג on steroidsג, with insiders claiming that the story ג about a respectable lawyer who gets in over his head after becoming involved in the illegal drug business ג is one of McCarthyגs גmost disturbing and powerful worksג to date. This is his first original script.

Michael Fassbender is the front runner for the lead role.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:37 am

So this cast is pretty crazy right now

Michael Fassbender, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt are all signed on

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:31 am

One of the worst popular novelists of this and the past century. Utterly horrific shit.

perfectprism · Post by **perfectprism** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:55 pm

What've you read of his, out of curiosity? I've read No Country, the Road, and Blood Meridian. Liked the first two decently enough, was blown away by the third. I started "All the Pretty Horses" the other day and realized that I have no interest to read any more of his work. Alot of it is samey, in the end, and I could see someone think of it as rambling or longwinded. He's like a hyper-stylized Faulker and sometimes it seems forced, but I can never know that for sure.

Either way, Blood Meridian rocks. The other stuff I can understand. But I really could not fathom someone reading BM, fully digesting it and coming away with a negative opinion. But I love Faulker and this sort of style in general, so

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:49 pm

Thun wrote:One of the worst popular novelists of this and the past century. Utterly horrific shit.

was this your return post?

nm, i see it wasn't. Don't know if I agree with what you said, but I read The Road and it certainly sucked the balls.

PiThief · Post by **PiThief** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:29 am

Versive wrote:
Thun wrote:One of the worst popular novelists of this and the past century. Utterly horrific shit.
was this your return post?

nm, i see it wasn't. Don't know if I agree with what you said, but I read The Road and it certainly sucked the balls.

Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about it?

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:28 am

I read it years ago but I remember feeling like a lot of the religious allusions were kind of pointless or forced or even just over the top. The biblical diction bothered me. Beyond those elements, which I didn't enjoy, there's nothing separating it from the countless pieces of post-apocolyptic genre literature the hoighty toighty critics at the NY Times book review wouldn't give the time of day, even though those might be more entertaining/insightful than this was. Don't ask me to point to particular titles because I'm not big into post-apocolyptic wasteland journey stories in general (that's probably also a big factor), but I know they're out there because I read a lot of genre stuff.

PiThief · Post by **PiThief** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:36 pm

Versive wrote:I read it years ago but I remember feeling like a lot of the religious allusions were kind of pointless or forced or even just over the top. The biblical diction bothered me. Beyond those elements, which I didn't enjoy, there's nothing separating it from the countless pieces of post-apocolyptic genre literature the hoighty toighty critics at the NY Times book review wouldn't give the time of day, even though those might be more entertaining/insightful than this was. Don't ask me to point to particular titles because I'm not big into post-apocolyptic wasteland journey stories in general (that's probably also a big factor), but I know they're out there because I read a lot of genre stuff.

fair enough

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 6:49 pm

Anyone have a link to this script?

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:23 pm

SonnyCookout wrote:Sweet, wouldn't be mad if the Coen brothers directed this.

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:23 pm

thread reminds me of good ole ithikkkle

Trademark · Post by **Trademark** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:58 am

so no one has the script then?

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:30 pm

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