Border between Mexico and the United States. Deserted Southwest. The mountains in a blood-red sky. A pick-up parked in the dust. A man tends a wire from one side of a road that is straighten for miles and miles in the desert. These are some of the first known elements of "The counselor", a film written by Cormac McCarthy, which is to be released in late autumn. The copy of the script has been recently published as an exclusive preview in The New Yorker, and it seems that the last of the work of the American writer follows the southern-gothic genre that characterizes all of his works, "matters of life and death"(McCarthy ) mixed with realism and rawness.

THE COUNSELOR. The film based on the script of the author of The Road and No Country for Old Men tells the story of a lawyer from California who is a drug trafficker. It puts him into business with a man named Reiner and shady acquaintances with South American drug cartels. He has 220 gallons of cocaine transported across the border in a tanker. The objective is to take it and sell for twenty million dollars. With all that he'll need some help of another crook named Westray.

THE CAST. The screenplay of the American writer has been sold at auction for 254 million dollars and ended up in the hands of Ridley Scott, who decided to turn it into a movie. The cast of the film from the director of "Blade Runner" and "Gladiator," are Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz.