• The Road Screenwriter To Adapt Butcher's Crossing For Sam Mendes

    Joe Penhall has been hired by Focus Features to adapt the John Williams' 1960 Western novel Butcher's Crossing, which Sam Mendes might direct. The New York Times called the book "the first and best revisionist western" and "harsh and relentless yet muted in tone," noting that "Butcher's Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy."  Penhall…

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  • The Road Director John Hillcoat Eyes Daniel Craig, Nick Cave For Future Projects

    Now that The Road is finally about to get a release, director John Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall are moving on to their next projects. Variety reports that Penhall is potentially writing a remake of the 1973 French heist/romance picture La bonne année, about a thief planning to rob a Cannes jewelers after his release…

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  • Mike Nichols Adapting Patricia Highsmith's Deep Water

    Patricia Highsmith must surely be one of the most adapted authors in the history of cinema with her Ripley books alone giving us five theatrical features. Her novel Strangers on a Train has also been filmed a good few times, with varying degrees of success and fidelity. The most famous version, not to mention the…

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