Directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Cormac McCarthy , the Home Box Office TV movie is n't the first time the two have collaborated. The last time they worked together was on the Coen brothers ' classic No Country for Old Men .
Bringing Cormac McCarthy's book to the screen is a movie download that most people dread, and Tommy Lee Jones knows it well through 2007's No Country for Old Men (based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name). road. So when he decided to adapt the literary giant's suicide-themed scripted novel The Sunset Limited , he called McCarthy for permission. The famous reclusive writer sent his blessings and even visited the studio on set. The director of the Home Box Office film (which premiered on February 12, 2011), and Samuel Jackson's co-star, Jones, said: "Cormac spent a lot of rehearsal time with us, and it was a great experience for me and Sam. It was a good experience for me, but not for others because I don't let other people in. Well, (I did invite) some folks from Home Box Office, but they had to stick their hands against the wall Sit."
