Sunset Limited Resources

This is the official website for McCarthy's most avid fans. If you click on the "Works" page, there's a whole section devoted to The Sunset Limited. Now go get your nerd on.

This website has behind-the-scenes footage (briefly featuring McCarthy), clips, and other goodies related to the film production of The Sunset Limited, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.

Here's the official website for the actual Sunset Limited—we're talking about the train, folks—which winds its way from New Orleans out to California. Road trip time…

This is a very faithful adaptation of the play (there are some slight differences) starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. It's Jones's second collaboration with McCarthy, having starred in the Oscar-winning adaptation of his novel No Country for Old Men previously.

Okay, this totally is an interview, but McCarthy prefers conversations, so we'll oblige him and call this that. Here, McCarthy mentions a bit about religion, and talks about how he was a better painter (as a child) than his son and what might cause the end of the world. The interview is pretty much focused on The Road, though—Sunset's not mentioned.

This is a classic McCarthy interview from back in the day, and it gives a good amount of detail about his earlier life.

This is an overall positive review of the Sunset movie, courtesy of some folks down in New Orleans.

This review of the filmed version of Sunset is actually pretty negative. It's still worth looking at, though, to see how people react to the play in different ways.

A review that's kind of mixed—while praising the play's dialogue and calling it "brilliant," it also claims that it's "not a play," since there's not much going on beyond the conversation.

This is a very useful and sturdy little article. It contains insights like the following: "McCarthy seems to have no ideological agenda here, but rather he aims at capturing the internal debate of the thoughtful individual seeking to navigate the subway of earthly existence, who hears within him- or herself the competing voices of, on the one hand, empirical reasoning and world-wearying experience and, on the other, hope and the transcendent spirit."

This lets you in on the actor's take on the play, including how he prepared for his role as Black. Oh, and he also talks about Snakes on a Plane a little.

The actor who played White in this production has some insights to offer—particularly his idea that Sunset is about the fight between faith and reason in everyone.

McCarthy might appear a little uncomfortable in this interview with Oprah, but he says some interesting things. This is McCarthy's first television interview ever.

If you want to hear Cormac McCarthy talking about cave paintings, or Werner Herzog reading a passage from McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, now's your chance.

This is the promotional pic for the movie—Jones and Jackson look like they're in it to win it.

Just a picture of some actors caught mid-play. That's what it would look like, if you were to go see Sunset somewhere.

Just a normal Amtrak train, right? That's what it appears to be—although thanks to the play, we now know that it's a despairing portal into oblivion.

Here are some sketches of the set for the movie, courtesy of HBO… Yeah, just like you were imagining it.

Here's a photo of McCarthy. Doesn't he look capable of getting into some pretty profound territory?