From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

My guest, writer-directors, Joel, and Ethan Cohen, followed their last

adaptation, the Lady Killers, with an adaptation of a novel this time out, their first, an

adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's, No Country for All Men.

Guys, thanks for being here.

Thanks for having us.

I've got to ask what drew you to Cormac McCarthy, because in a way, it's almost like he wrote a template for a movie you guys might have done, but in other ways, it's very different.

Yeah, well, we'd always like Cormac's stuff.

We'd read not all of his, several of his novels before this, but actually this didn't come up at our initiative.

Scott Rudin, the producer, brought us the novel, actually before it came out, in Galley's thinking

we might be interested in doing it, which we were. I guess it is kind of our kind of thing

somehow. I don't know. The regional nature of the story, I don't know, whatever reasons,

which we didn't really even articulate between ourselves, it really

appealed to us. It's only retrospectively, actually, for us that we realized that there were things

in this story that were sort of similar to things that we'd done before. And I'm imagining that

sort of real strong regional sense would appeal to you guys too, because

and places are so important to you.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know why we've set so many movies, you know, either in Texas or in the sort of

the South.

The South.

It has always appealed to us.

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