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Why Did Twitter Verify an Obvious Cormac McCarthy Parody Account?
People really want to believe the 88-year-old author spends his time making jokes online about his publicist.
The Movies, Books, and Video Games That Influenced 'Westworld'
Sunday is the season finale, but these movies, books, and video games will help tide you over until season two.
An Italian Journalist Just Trolled Everyone into Thinking Cormac McCarthy Was Dead
Cormac McCarthy is still alive and well, everybody.
James Franco Can't Make His 'Blood Meridian' Movie with Russell Crowe After All
The entire deal fell apart only hours after being announced Thursday because James Franco's team didn't acquire the rights to the book.
I Love William Gay’s ‘The Long Home’
My new favorite writer is William Gay. His writes about a community of backwoods Tennessee characters entangled by geography, blood, competition, greed, love, and vengeance. The thing about Gay is that he’s the strange twin brother of Cormac McCarthy...
Why Movie Reviewers Are Missing the Point of ‘Child of God,’ and Probably Life Itself
James Franco's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 1973 novel about a necrophiliac serial killer hit theaters last Friday. On the whole, reviews weren't good. Child of God may well be my favorite book, and the adaptation is exactly what I was hoping...
The Power of the Past in Cormac McCarthy's 'Wake for Susan'
My adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s third novel, Child of God, is in theaters tomorrow, so I wrote about McCarthy's first published short story, “Wake for Susan,” to show that he has had a fascination with death since the beginning and is the...
James Franco’s ‘Blood Meridian’ Test
In honor of the release of Child of God on August 1, I’m posting a 25-minute test I did for the film version of Blood Meridian, starring Scott Glenn, Luke Perry, Mark Pellegrino (Lost), and my brother, Dave. If you know the book...
Watch Michael Shannon Fuck a Corpse in James Franco's Short Film 'Herbert White'
Watch my short film Herbert White, which is based on a Frank Bidart poem and stars Michael Shannon as a necrophiliac, exclusively on VICE.
Adapting 'Blood Meridian'
I have always wanted to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s great novel into film. Many have tried and failed. I dreamed about adapting it, never thinking that it would happen. If Tommy Lee Jones couldn’t do it and Ridley Scott couldn’t do it, how could I?
What’s the Best Kind of Gun to Conceal Inside Your Ladyparts?
We have a lot of questions about the story going around today about Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife pulling a gun out of her hoo-ha during an argument over aliens, but the main one is, what the heck kind of firearm was she concealing down there?
Cameron Diaz Has Sex With a Car, Saves a Film
'The Counselor' really doesn’t work. But in citing the car sex sequence, critics have provoked the wrong argument. That scene is not why The Counselor fails.