![]() ![]() Spanish actor Javier Bardem played the part of Chigurh. ![]() Actor Tommy Lee Jones, who grew up in San Saba, Texas, was the first choice for Sheriff Bell. ![]() The script closely followed McCarthy’s novel, and the main differences came from scenes being compressed. Hitman Anton Chigurh is hired to recover the money taken by Moss, and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell investigates both the initial crime scene and the subsequent crime spree that followed. The plot of the movie, set in the West Texas borderlands of 1980, follows the plight of area resident and Vietnam veteran Llewelyn Moss, who happened upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and tried to escape with the drug money. The Coen brothers, whose previous projects included Raising Arizona (1987) and Fargo (1996), adapted the novel for film (their first from someone else’s material) but did not actually meet with McCarthy until shooting had already begun. Brothers and filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen were familiar with McCarthy’s work, and film producer Scott Rudin, who had already purchased the rights to the novel, gave them a copy. The film No Country for Old Men, released in 2007, was an adapted screenplay, originating from writer Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name that was published in 2005. ![]()
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