‘Proposition’ Director Picks Follow-Up to ‘The Road’
Filed under: Action, Drama, Deals, Sony, Distribution, Western
Everyone and their (his?) mother loves The Proposition, the Nick Cave-penned Australian western starring Danny Huston as a villain who could give Chigurh a run for his money in sheer badassery. It’s hard to blame them, since movies that gritty and tough don’t come along very often. (As modern westerns go, I think 3:10 to Yuma is better, but it certainly isn’t as awesomely brutal.) Two years after that film became a critical darling and a sleeper hit of sorts, director John Hillcoat — who is currently in production on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road — has signed with Columbia to direct an adaptation of a not-yet-released novel by Matt Bondurant called The Wettest Country in the World. The book is about a trio of gangsters — the author’s grandfather and grand-uncles — who ran the moonshine trade at the peak of the Prohibition Era, and the writer who tracked them in search of a scoop.
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