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The Road author Cormac McCarthy turns in first original screenplay
Novelist’s ‘spec’ feature-film script deals with a lawyer who becomes embroiled in drug trade in south-west USHis novels have been adapted into critically acclaimed films such as the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men and John Hillcoat’s The Road, but American author Cormac McCarthy has now surprised Hollywood by turning in a screenplay of his own, reports Deadline. Agents for the 78-year-old Pulitzer prize-winner had been expecting the first draft of a new book, but received instead what is believed to be McCarthy’s first “spec” script for a new movie.
published date:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:59:39 GMT