Which 2007 film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen was based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy?

The 2007 film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel is No Country for Old Men.

The story follows Llewelyn Moss, a welder who discovers drug money in the West Texas desert, and Anton Chigurh, the relentless killer sent to recover it. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell investigates as violence spreads across the border region.

Cormac McCarthy published the source novel in 2005. Producer Scott Rudin acquired the film rights and brought the project to the Coen brothers, who adapted the book with unusually little alteration. The film premiered at Cannes in 2007 and became one of the Coens’ most acclaimed works.

A common mix-up is Fargo, another Coen brothers crime film, but it is an original story. True Grit was also adapted by the Coens, from Charles Portis’s 1968 novel, while The Road is a separate 2009 adaptation of another McCarthy novel.