Perhaps “become a screenwriter” was on Cormac McCarthy’s bucket list? Mike Fleming of Deadline.com reported that the 78-year-old novelist, whose books The Road and No Country for Old Men were both made into widely acclaimed films, recently surprised his agents by delivering a full-length original screenplay instead of a new book. It’s called The Counselor, and, writes Fleming, is “contemporary, and set in the Southwest,” with the title character getting sucked into the drug business (a venture that, needless to say, does not go well).Producers Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz, who made The Road, acquired it almost immediately with a preemptive bid. James White at the British movie magazine and website Empire noted, “Directors are going to come running to take this one on.”Steve Schwartz told Deadline‘s…The post Cormac McCarthy Pens First Major Original Script appeared first on Texas Monthly.