The Counselor, the first screenplay from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy, is on track to become a movie very quickly.  We learned about the script's existence about three weeks ago, after McCarthy surprised his agents, who were expecting a new novel, with his first script in December.  Last week, it came out that no less a director than Ridley Scott was in talks.  Now, Scott has locked down a deal to direct The Counselor, he's planning a summer productions start, and he's looking at a badass leading man to play the title role.

Wow.  Two weeks ago to the day, we learned that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy had taken a break from writing his stripped down novels of violence in order to write his first feature screenplay, The Counselor, which will presumably be a stripped down tale of violence as well.  Producers quickly grabbed up the spec script, and at the time said that they would sort out funding then set to work finding a director.  Seems they may have skipped a step, as one of the biggest directors in the game is in talks to direct: Ridley Scott.