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The Counsellor
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Brought to the screen by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and starring Michael Fassbender, The Counselor is an original screenplay from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road, Cormac McCarthy.
'McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in grief' – Empire, on the film
A man, unnamed, wants to be rich. So entranced is he by this...
Details
160 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
No Country for Old Men on a benderIndieWire on the film
The real stars of director Ridley Scott's moody, bloody crime thriller The Counselor aren't Fassbender, Bardem, Diaz, Cruz, or Pitt but writer Cormac McCarthy's wordsIGN on the film
Scott and McCarthy have created a film that in less accomplished hands could have slumped into melodrama, but that retains the grim humour, and the granitic implacability, of a classic morality taleTotal Film on the film
McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in griefEmpire on the film