No Country for Old Men (2012): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Javier Bardem nearly withdrew from the role of Anton Chigurh due to issues with scheduling.
• Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar.
• Producer Scott Rudin bought the film rights to McCarthy's novel and suggested an adaptation to the Coen brothers, who at the time were attempting to adapt the novel To the White Sea by James Dickey.
• The film expanded to a wide release in 860 theaters in the United States on November 21, 2007, grossing $7,776,773 over the first weekend.
• Garret Dillahunt was also in the running for the role of Llewelyn Moss, auditioning five times for the role, but instead was offered the part of Wendell, Ed Tom Bell's deputy.
• The film became a commercial success, grossing $171 million worldwide against a budget of $25 million.
• Josh Brolin, who was not the Coens' first choice, enlisted the help of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez to make an audition reel during the production of Grindhouse.
• Ethan Coen explained that the "pitiless quality" was a "hallmark of the book, which has an unforgiving landscape and characters but is also about finding some kind of beauty without being sentimental."
• The adaptation was the second of McCarthy's work, following All the Pretty Horses in 2000.
• Director Joel Coen articulated his interest in the McCarthy novel.
• The film commercially opened in limited release in 28 theaters in the United States on November 9, 2007, grossing $1,226,333 over the opening weekend, and opened in the United Kingdom (limited release) and Ireland on January 18, 2008.
• As of February 13, 2009, the film had grossed $74,283,000 domestically (United States).
• The film won top honors at the Directors Guild of America Awards for Joel and Ethan Coen.
• The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year for 2007, and the Australian Film Critics Association and Houston Film Critics Society both voted it best film of 2007.
• In 2021, members of Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) ranked its screenplay 5th in WGA’s 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (so far).

Source: Wikipedia

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