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James Franco: Now Adapting Famous Literary Works

Who would have thought that the stoner kid from Freaks and Geeks—or, for that matter, the stoner kid from Pineapple Express—would grow up to adapt a William Faulkner work for the screen?...  read more

Five Reasons the Judge From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian Will Keep You Up at Night

It took me over a year to finish reading Cormac McCarthy’s 1985 masterpiece, Blood Meridian. Those familiar with his other works, which include post-apocalyptic tome The Road and the chilling No Country for Old Men, both of which have been recently made into movies, shouldn’t have any trouble imagining why. McCarthy’s depiction of a fictionalized Glanton Gang raping, pillaging and murdering their way across the untamed American West is as merciless and unflinching as anything he’s ever written. Subjecting one’s mind to it is no easy task, and yet, with the pending Todd Field-directed film adaptation on the way, interested...  read more

Win Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter

Cormac McCarthy has a charmingly old-school method for penning his Putlitzer Prize-winning work, considering the ever-more-digital age in which it’s published. It all happens on a rickety, old Olivetti typewriter, one that he bought in the fall of 1958 for $50 at a pawnshop in Knoxville, Tenn. That’s right, No Country For Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing were all clacked out like gunshots on the very same machine....  read more

Cormac McCarthy

Until 1992, with the publication of the National Book Award-winning...  read more

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian film changes directors

A Los Angeles Times article on the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron) curiously dropped this little nugget of information: writer/director and sometimes actor Todd Field is currently working on an adaptation of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian novel. Ridley Scott had previously been attached to direct the tale, said to be a brutal 1850’s Western where Native Americans are slaughtered for profit. ...  read more