The movie 'No Country for Old Men' has been seen by many, and many know that the Oscar-winning film was based on Cormac McCarthy's novel - but did you know it started out as a screenplay?
Do you know if the script McCarthy first wrote in 1987 was pretty much the same as the novel or did he rework it?
I have always suspected that McCarthy may have at that point been trying to prove to himself he could write a commercial piece of writing because although he got recognition that he was a good writer, he was still impoverished when he attempted a movie script. No Country for Old Men is to me radically different from his other work. It seems to be about the pivotal quality of money.
I've not found his original script - hence, can't tell you. But as a screenwriter I can tell you that his novel feels very close to what a script would look like. I've once turned one of my own spec scripts into a novel and I got that same sense from reading his novel.
Do you know if the script McCarthy first wrote in 1987 was pretty much the same as the novel or did he rework it?
I have always suspected that McCarthy may have at that point been trying to prove to himself he could write a commercial piece of writing because although he got recognition that he was a good writer, he was still impoverished when he attempted a movie script. No Country for Old Men is to me radically different from his other work. It seems to be about the pivotal quality of money.
I've not found his original script - hence, can't tell you. But as a screenwriter I can tell you that his novel feels very close to what a script would look like. I've once turned one of my own spec scripts into a novel and I got that same sense from reading his novel.