Indeed. The novelist has turned in a 'spec' feature-film script that deals with a lawyer who becomes embroiled in drug trade in the Southwest.
From a story in the Guardian...
Deadline reports that the screenplay, called The Counselor, is set in the modern-day south-west of the US and recalls the hard-boiled world of No Country For Old Men. It depicts a respected lawyer who bites off more than he can chew after foolishly getting involved in the drug business. Such a storyline recalls Sean Penn's Golden Globe-nominated turn in the 1993 Brian De Palma gangster film Carlito's Way.
"The spec falls smack in the middle of what everyone responds to with Cormac's novels," Wechsler told Deadline. Steve Schwartz added: "Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. It's a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles. McCarthy's wit and humour in the dialogue make the nightmare even scarier. This may be one of McCarthy's most disturbing and powerful works."
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