Another Cormac McCarthy novel is finally getting a film adaptation. Two years after the acclaimed author's death at the age of 89, London-based production company Good Chaos and Oscar-winning filmmaker Laszlo Nemes have acquired the book-to-screen rights for McCarthy's second novel, Outer Dark.
Per Deadline, Outer Dark will mark the English-language debut of Nemes, whose debut feature, 2015's Son of Saul, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Hungary. "Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy’s evocative and cosmological work," the filmmaker said in a statement.
First published in 1968, Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother’s baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die,...
Per Deadline, Outer Dark will mark the English-language debut of Nemes, whose debut feature, 2015's Son of Saul, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Hungary. "Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy’s evocative and cosmological work," the filmmaker said in a statement.
First published in 1968, Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother’s baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die,...
- 5/16/2025
- by Lee Freitag
- CBR
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