New Cormac Screenplay, The Counselor

[Richard Ryan]

"No Country for Old Attorneys"....kind of like "To Kill a Mockingbird" with
coke and automatic weapons.

I'm getting sleepy, very sleepy....

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:42 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey y'all
>
> no, no new novel but CM has written a new screenplay which will be made
> into a film
>
>
> http://www.avclub.com/articles/cormac-mccarthy-writing-his-own-original-screenpla,67901/
>
> According to one of them, Nick Wechsler, *The Counselor* screenplay
> “falls smack in the middle of what everyone responds to with Cormac’s
> novels”—a complete lack of quotation marks, yes, but also a “masculine
> world” (interrupted here by two rare-for-McCarthy female leads) and
> characters who find themselves trapped in bleak and brutal situations. This
> time it’s a lawyer in the Southwest “who thinks he can dip a toe into the
> drug business without getting sucked down.”
>
> rich
>



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