cormac mccarthy’s first television interview ever, with Oprah, June 2008. among other things he explains the 2 moments that lead to him writing the road.

Nameless characters(!) in an HBO(!) movie based on a play by Corman McCarthy(!) starring Samuel L Jackson (!) and Tommy Lee Jones(!) with all of the action taking place in one room(!)

Could we fit more key words(!) into this description? I think not!

soupsoup:

Upcoming HBO movie based on a play called The Sunset Limited

The play involves only two nameless characters, designated “White” and “Black”, their respective skin colors. Offstage, just before the play begins, Black saves White from throwing himself in front of a train, the Sunset Limited. All of the action takes place in Black’s spare apartment in urban New York, where the characters go (at the behest of Black) after their encounter on the platform. Black is an ex-convict and an evangelical Christian. White is an atheist and a professor. They debate the meaning of human suffering, the existence of God, and the propriety of White’s attempted suicide.