Cormac McCarthy left his hometown more than 25 years ago, but we're still fascinated with his unusual career. And at 78, it was just announced, he has completed his first-ever screenplay. Three of his novels--All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road, have been made into major motion pictures, and other projects are rumored to be in the works. (So far, none of his Knoxville-area novels--The Orchard Keeper, Child of God, Suttree--have been filmed, despite some reported interest.)
Until now, McCarthy's always left the script writing to others. With his latest project, The Counselor, about a lawyer who slips into the dangerous Mexican-border drug-trafficking business, McCarthy surprised everybody by skipping the novel stage altogether.
And with a Best Picture Oscar behind him, he has generated more interest than most first-time screenwriters. Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, the team behind motion-picture version of The Road, have already made an offer for the script, what's been described as a "preemptive acquisition."
For more, see http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-cormac-mccarthy-sells-his-first-spec-script/
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