Bug

…screenplays for film adaptations of Bug (2006) and Killer Joe (2011), both of which were directed by William Friedkin, and of August: Osage County (2013). He also wrote and acted in The Woman in the Window, which was based on A.J. Finn’s best seller.

…killer (Benicio Del Toro); and Bug (2006), an adaptation of Tracy Letts’s play about the mental breakdown of a military veteran (Michael Shannon) and of his girlfriend (Ashley Judd). In 2011 Friedkin adapted another Letts play, Killer Joe, which centers on a drug dealer who hires a contract killer (Matthew…

…in the film adaptation of Bug, directed by William Friedkin and costarring Ashley Judd. A year later Shannon collaborated for the first time with director Jeff Nichols on Shotgun Stories, in which Shannon plays one of two half brothers who begin a feud after their father dies.