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i thought this book was one of McCarthy's weakest. I was woefully underimpressed. It was as if the book was being written as a screenplay, knowing it would be bought and turned into a movie. I want to know when someone is going to make a film of Suttree, or Outer Dark or the Orchard Keeper.

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i thought this book was one of McCarthy's weakest. I was woefully underimpressed. It was as if the book was being written as a screenplay, knowing it would be bought and turned into a movie. I want to know when someone is going to make a film of Suttree, or Outer Dark or the Orchard Keeper.

 

agree that it isn't nearly as strong as McCarthy's other works. but The Road was a return to form - a tremendous novel.

 

i hear that Ridley Scott wants to make Blood Meridian, but they are still looking for a good script. they approached Nick Cave and asked him whether he would be interested in writing it. he flatly refused, saying something like, "i don't want to be known as the guy who screwed up one of the greatest books ever..." Outer Dark was made into a film by some students at a university (can't remember the school), but they didn't have the funding to finish it.

 

and the guy who directed "The Proposition," a great Australian western that starred Guy Pearce, is set to make The Road.

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