Joe Penhall set to write the screenplay for BUTCHER’S CROSSING
Joe Penhall wrote the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD, which is currently in theaters, and he has now agreed to write the screenplay for another book-to-movie adaptation in BUTCHER’S CROSSING for Focus Features.
The novel BUTCHER’S CROSSING was written in 1960 by John Edward Williams, and is set in the 1870s. BUTCHER’S CROSSING is about a young man who quits Harvard, decides to head west to Kansas, and ends up joining a search for a particular buffalo herd. That is why I didn’t go Harvard – I had feeling that if I did, I would just end quitting to go chase buffaloes (it is an obvious progression). So I knew it wasn’t even worth my time applying or getting the grades needed to get in. Just to be clear, I rejected Harvard, preemptively.
AMERICAN BEAUTY, AWAY WE GO, and RESERVATION ROAD director Sam Mendes might direct the project.
Source The Hollywood Reporter
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