Month: November 2017

Few contemporary authors have made as profound an impact on literature as Cormac McCarthy. From seminal classics like Blood Meridian, to the Pulitzer Prize-Winning The Road, there are few alive that can match the author’s elegantly descriptive, yet structurally minimalist prose. McCarthy rarely gives interviews or openly discusses his work, although ScreenCraft’s Ken Miyamoto recently… Continue reading From Script to Screen: No Country for Old Men — The Script Lab

Writer/director James Mangold adores the taciturn Western hero, an archetype that he’s woven into some of his best-known work. Whether he’s crafting a story about a lonely cook (the 1995 indie Heavy), a suburban sheriff (Cop Land), or even country music legend Johnny Cash (2005’s Walk the Line), Mangold mines a reticence in his protagonists […]… Continue reading 6 Screenwriting Tips from Logan’s James Mangold — The Script Lab