'The Road' Scribe Heads to the West ... Maybe with Sam Mendes

After having skillfully enclosed The Road, a flick that inspired Eugene Novikov to write: "John Hillcoat's faithful, near-perfect adaptation beautifully captures McCarthy's synthesis of all-encompassing scene and enduring hope," scribe Joe Penhall is way for an entirely assorted concern of grit, drama, and danger. The tone Reporter posts that the writer module alter John Williams' 1960 novel Butcher's Crossing for Focus Features. If every entireness out, Sam Mendes module direct.

Instead of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Butcher's Crossing is ordered in the 1870s and follows a man who drops discover of Harvard to encounter "an example relation to nature" in the west. He ends up in the diminutive river town of Butcher's Crossing, and joins a hunt for a buffalo herd. But it's a lowercase more than meet a man escaping chronicle and labour the big buffalo. The hunt leads him to insanity before way back to the Crossing where the concern has denaturized meet as much as he and his band have.

My exclusive uncertainty is Mendes, and wondering how the administrator would appendage a concern of rough, arts madness. We know Hillcoat crapper do it -- he's hit the thought discover of the tract with both Proposition and The Road. So what do you think? Can Mendes scramble up a fit verify at insanity in the 19th century west?