I told you a few days ago that Cormac McCarthy, one of the greatest living American authors, surprised his agents by handing them a spec script. His agents immediately sold the screenplay, which centers around a lawyer who delves in the drug trade, to the same producers responsible for bringing us the film version of McCarthy's novel The Road. Selling a screenplay isn't a guarantee that a film will be made as there are a lot of moving parts in Hollywood, but the project seems to be gaining serious steam.
Ridley Scott is currently wrapping up post-production on Prometheus, which is a pseudo-prequel to Alien and is one of my most anticipated films of the year. In looking for his next project, Scott is eyeing the McCarthy script. Think about it, the guy who directed everything from Alien to Blade Runner to Black Hawk Down to Gladiator is looking to direct a script from a Pulitzer Prize winning author who wrote such magnificent novels as No Country for Old Men, The Road, Suttree and Blood Meridian. Wow.
If Scott decides to make this his next project, then we could conceivably see this film in theaters in 2013. Make it happen Ridley.
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