The recently passed Cormac McCarthy is known to most movie fans for No Country for Old Men.
His novel became the film many would call the Coen Brothers’s finest work and won them the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay, Director, and Picture.
Sadly, this is the exception when it comes to McCarthy’s adaptations.
Unlike fellow Western novelist Larry McMurtry, who had three books adapted to massive critical acclaim, McCarthy’s works have failed to catch on with critics or mainstream audiences.
Despite the Pulitzer prize won by the book, The Road did not translate to the same success as a film.
No adaptation was more detrimental than Billy Bob Thornton’s attempt to make All the Pretty Horses, though not by the fault of Thornton.
McCarthy’s work could have made for an excellent film, if not for the meddling from an unfortunate studio partner…
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