Blood Meridian Movie Adaptation EXPLAINED [2024]

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Ever since the upcoming Blood Meridian film adaptation was announced there have been few updates about how the movie is progressing, so this video will preview everything we know so far about the new John Hillcoat directed adaptation from New Regency, based on the famous 1985 western novel written by author Cormac McCarthy. We will also take a look back how and why this came to be the fourth official attempt to adapt Blood Meridian into a movie, despite the best efforts of directors like Tommy Lee Jones, Ridley Scott and James Franco.
0:00 Blood Meridian Movie News Update Explained Trailer
0:17 What is Blood Meridian About?
1:17 Why a Blood Meridian Movie Adaptation is so difficult
1:51 Blood Meridian Movie (1990) Director - Tommy Lee Jones
2:28 Blood Meridian Movie (2004) Director - Ridley Scott
3:00 Blood Meridian Movie (2017) Director - James Franco
3:38 Is Blood Meridian Unfilmable?
3:56 Blood Meridian Movie (2024) Director - John Hillcoat
4:39 Blood Meridian Movie Cast
4:51 Is Blood Meridian still being made into a Movie?
5:30 Do you think Blood Meridian should be made into a movie?
👇 Let me know in the comments below: Do YOU think it is actually possible to adapt Blood Meridian into a movie?
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@JustWesterns Ай бұрын

UPDATE [April 24] - It has now been confirmed that the latest Blood Meridian Movie adaption is still in active development with three time Oscar-nominated scribe John Logan joining the project to take over writing duties!

@carolinehuffines7019 2 ай бұрын

Totally film able, but needs to be in a ten hour mini-series format. Greatest Western ever written.

@jamesbell8496 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely Caroline. No way Blood Meridian could be a 2 or even 3 hour movie. They couldn't do it justice in a short time.

@theoriginalDAL357 2 ай бұрын

Exactly what I thought as I watched this video.

@dylanharatoonian 2 ай бұрын

I'll admit this is probably true, but i would very much rather experience it on the big screen with hundreds of people rather than sitting on my couch in my boxers@@jamesbell8496

@jonathandavis9507 2 ай бұрын

Needs really great photography to match up with the writing quality. It’s a tall order to live up to.

@Aryan-qv5qk 2 ай бұрын

Also child rape stuff is probably gonna be taken out

@cadamham 2 ай бұрын

8 hour mini series on HBO

@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat 2 ай бұрын

I hope Danny devito plays the judge.

@hellbenderdesign 2 ай бұрын

They could reverse-Hobbit him - 7 foot-tall Danny.

@ironwolf1799 2 ай бұрын

@@hellbenderdesignterrifying

@kshitijshekhar1144 Ай бұрын

No, maybe Alan ritchson, don't know of any other taller actor

@cawsomeaolin Ай бұрын

hahaha

@wobblertv8083 Ай бұрын

Vincent d"onafrio be a good fit .

@jrbaltmd57 2 ай бұрын

My English Professor at Clarion University turned me onto Blood Meridian in the early nineties… fantastic read, I hope someday someone pulls this off

@michaelwalker8144 2 ай бұрын

It's filmable. The book has incredibly cinematic scenes. Just need the right director, script, and actors make that happen. Also don't lose the theme of humanity being just part of a bleak, savage universe.

@TheSFMWonderer 5 күн бұрын

While I am happy this is gonna be filmed, I feel like a lot of Judge Holden scenes will be cut to make the film less disturbing. Mainly the ones involving CSA, cause not only would it make Holden a little tamer compared to his book one, it would just be boring missing the disturbing and horrifying actions a character like Holden would commit. I could care less if Holden was changed into a female or smth. But, adapting Holden onto the big screen will need sacrifices, and I feel like it would work better as a tv series like Last of Us or smth. Still excited, but, who knows. Perhaps Holden will be the monster in the books, like Baron from Dune.

@backrowbrighton 2 ай бұрын

I am certain that 'Blood Meridian' would work as a movie. A script true to the novel and a bold director is all it takes. I think the reluctance is over the violence contained in the story, however this did not seem a barrier to the other film adaptations of the authors work. The Road? No Country for Old Men? If the production gets a green light, many A Listers would be interested in being involved. The Judge is certainly one of those parts that rarely come along and could be potentially Oscar worthy.

@antin_ovel 2 ай бұрын

Just finished the novel and I'm mostly curious about who they'll cast for Holden, can't have this work without a solid Judge

@vingasoline5068 2 ай бұрын

@@antin_ovelVincent D’Onofrio has always been my pick personally but if Marlon Brando was still alive I would pick him.

@tnreprasentog7769 2 ай бұрын

The issue is all the rape and violence against kids

@superman9772 2 ай бұрын

i don't think it's the violence so much as the author enjoyed investigating human nature and motivation which was his main topic in his novels (to me, "child of god" is his best) and to come up with either the dialogue or acting to project the thoughts and internal emotions within the characters would be difficult and not "doable" in an action movie... i think it'd require someone narrating the inner personal turmoil and motivations during the movie and most people in the audience wouldn't get it and the critics would tear it apart... some things are better imagined.... and one thing, the real life events were much much bloodier and the book only covered one group of those real life events... there were many more ... it's my hometown...

@bribook69 Ай бұрын

The Road & No Country for Old Men had something going for them that Blood Meridian does not: sympathetic characters. In the two successful movies, the main characters were shocked observers and reluctant participants in the violence. In Blood Meridian, there no main sympathetic characters for a casual viewer to latch onto. There are interesting characters like The Judge or Toadvine, but they are warped psychopaths. The real main character is the violence itself, the casual savagery that swallows everybody whole. In the book, even "the kid" becomes more of a secondary character as the Glanton Gang moves from one bloody situation to the next. You need a sympathetic character or two to tell a story on film; but inventing one for Blood Meridian kinda defeats the whole message of the book. So .... ?

@Barnyard140 2 ай бұрын

Judge Holden is possibly the most elegant and evil character of all-time. I don't think a well-known actor can pull it off. It needs to be an unknown or perhaps a dark horse, like Heath Ledger with The Joker. I'm hopeful, but I doubt any adaptation of this book can be as good as No Country for Old Men or even the Road.

@artgf 2 ай бұрын

Vincent D’ Onofrio could pull it off.

@Barnyard140 2 ай бұрын

@@artgf Yes indeed! He'd be my choice.

@YoushouldloveyourselfNOW1738 2 ай бұрын

A very evil man in real life, too. The real Glanton Gang were truly horrible.

@user-sq3ls2jw2i 2 ай бұрын

Ralph Ineson is my vote

@PolishGod1234 2 күн бұрын

Most evil is debatable, Morgoth from Silmarillion is worse in my personal opinion

@sirthalface 2 ай бұрын

Vincent d’ofronio shoul be the judge

@shtcoinmaxi1367 2 ай бұрын

More like Peter Dinklage

@karenandrews4224 2 ай бұрын

Javier bardem

@jabba2126 2 ай бұрын

762 millimetre

@alexsetterington3142 2 ай бұрын

Kim Dotcom is pretty close to perfect height and weight. Dotcom is the judge to me.

@_Snafu_ 2 ай бұрын

He would be great but I think the guy who could really nail the role would be the same guy who plays the “Swede” in Hell on wheels. Heck, his character practically turned into the judge, and even slightly quoted the judge in the series during the second season on.

@billcrotts5456 2 ай бұрын

I would rather this movie never be made than be directed by Ridley Scott

@ShacoPL Ай бұрын

I loathe the newer Alien films

@lmenzol Ай бұрын

Please don’t tell me he’s directing it

@whysosnappy8016 Ай бұрын

funnily enough he did direct a movie from a script by cormac mccarthy but the counselor was so fucking terrible

@bb.buchanan Ай бұрын

@@ShacoPL As far as i'm concerned, there are only two Alien films; the first and the sequel.

@however-yh2jy Ай бұрын

At his peak I think Ridley Scott would have been a good pick but Napoleon really made me think he's done now.

@JustWesterns 2 ай бұрын

Since covering the announcement of a Blood Meridian movie about a year ago, I've had a lot of people ask for an update, so this video will cover everything we know about the film as of 2024, as well as taking a deeper look at the failed adaptations that came before it. But I'm curious, do you think Blood Meridian will work as movie or is it really one of those stories that only works as a novel? 🤔

@jasonuerkvitz3756 2 ай бұрын

If you can cast Holden properly and if you can depict the violence in a horrific, yet surreal enough way, it could be done. Hitchcock depicted a horrific scene of violence in "Psycho" and it worked superbly. Blatantly showing every knife slash, every gunshot wound, isn't necessary. With proper sound direction--horses braying, gunfire, men calling out, the screams of the dying, the soggy slap of gore--you can evoke plenty in the viewers' imagination without showing a thing. "Saving Private Ryan" had an absolutely abominable opening scene, and it was so powerful, it set the tone and established the stakes involved in the horror of that war. It could be done, but I think the directors need to contemplate the model for how the tale of _Blood Meridian_ is delivered. I think, after seeing "True Detective" season 1, I realized how powerful a serial drama could be. _Blood Meridian_ begs to be done in a 6 part epic, lasting 9 hours in total.

@oneinathousand2156 2 ай бұрын

I read an alleged script by William Monahan for Ridley Scott’s attempt and it was pretty awful, I’m glad it never got made into a movie. It contains a bizarrely happy ending where the Kid kills the Judge and adopts a toddler, plus it has some cringy dialogue and it compresses the opening act of the book to the point of whiplash. At first I didn’t believe it could be real but I talked to the guy who leaked it online and now I unfortunately believe it’s legitimate. The bar was set so low by that, I’m curious to read the other scripts by Steve Tesich (for the producer Scott Rudin), Tommy Lee Jones (which I hear only adapted part of the book and I suppose he was hoping to make multiple movies), and James Franco, but as far as I know none of those scripts are available to read online, though if any of you do know where I could read any of them, do tell (I know the Tesich script can be read at a couple libraries but they’re too far away from me). And of course, I really hope McCarthy finished at least one draft of a script.

@Malum09 2 ай бұрын

i think Todd Field also wrote a script in the 2000's but in the end it never amounted to anything.

@robertstraw9881 2 ай бұрын

Ridley Scott is vastly overrated

@SubZero-hs9xc Ай бұрын

Can i ask where i find it and read it?

@Riskmangler 2 ай бұрын

At least we'll always have Bone Tomahawk.

@dbob3405 2 ай бұрын

Love that movie though the cave people in Bone Tomahawk look like Robin Hood’s Merry Men next to the Glanton gang

@Malum09 2 ай бұрын

You might as well watch BT and The Revenant back to back and have an approximation of what the BM movie could be.

@Riskmangler 2 ай бұрын

@@dbob3405 They were murderous brothers from different mothers.

@superman9772 2 ай бұрын

the story of bone tomahawk is not that far from real events... i grew up at the north end of the camino del diablo... and certain peoples "down there" do have beliefs and rituals that do include some acts that you can't describe on y0tube... one of the sayings from there is "you haven't cried enough tears for god to listen to your prayers" (and that saying pertains to some very cruel actions against young innocents)

@Esteban69129 Ай бұрын

Facts

@krog_8387 2 ай бұрын

I think it should be an animated mini-series. That way it would be easier to show brutal scenes, you wouldn't have to worry about the judge's actor and since it would be a series, you wouldn't have to squeeze all the content into one movie.

@ModeloBloodReplacement 2 ай бұрын

animated, absolutely not. this needs to be the gritty realistic western that it is

@leifhoklin2681 2 ай бұрын

@@ModeloBloodReplacement agreed.

@Sven-ql3ch Ай бұрын

hell nah god please not animated

@davidlean1060 Ай бұрын

@@ModeloBloodReplacement It's not a realistic western at all. It's more like a surreal, magic realism western. It's like viewing the landscape of the old west in a fever dream. The protagonist seems to vanish for a portion of the story. The antagonist is semi mythical and never seems to age, eat, drink or sleep. A man who, at one point, appears to make a coin orbit around a camp fire! The novel is anything but 'realistic'!

@Slickusso Ай бұрын

@@ModeloBloodReplacement I think they mean animated like arcane not some Disney movie. Honestly it would work pretty good in a lot of ways, especially in getting down some of the scenes with a lot of description

@greekmillennial4540 2 ай бұрын

If you could a make a 3 hour-NC-17-western as brilliant as No Country For Old Men then you have an adaptation for Blood Meridian

@joeschmoe1150 2 ай бұрын

Vincent D'onofrio as the Judge would be amazing!

@Cl0ckcl0ck 2 ай бұрын

Jack Nickelson is about as -anti-judge as you can get. Glad that one didn't get made. There is plenty of repetition in the novel that can be cut away without much problems and the child rape probably has to go. If you can film Cannibal Holocaust in the 70's then you can film Blood Meridian. Just make it in Mexico and it probably won't make any money if done right.

@authenticpoppy 2 ай бұрын

Jack Nicholson is always Jack Nicholson. He could never portray Judge Holden.

@madlynx1818 2 ай бұрын

David Lynch is the only director that would do this justice. Big time honorable mention to the movie Slow West. If anybody didn’t see that, check it out.

@Inkypencil22 2 ай бұрын

slow west is one of the most picturesque and unique westerns i’ve ever seen, i wish there were more like it. its a shame the director hasn’t made any films since

@stevenspringer1599 2 ай бұрын

Reading the novel, in my head I immediately cast Brian Dennehy as the judge...I can still see him, head shaved, speaking those lines.

@stevie576 2 ай бұрын

I always imagine Michael Chiklis, lol

@nicholasbarrett3018 2 ай бұрын

That's perfect

@user-sq3ls2jw2i 2 ай бұрын

I think Ralph Ineson could work.

@ryanandrew102 2 ай бұрын

For me it was the voice of Benjamin Byron Davis

@KieferSalting Ай бұрын

I made a list of people who could play as the judge here 1. Vincent D'Onofrio 2. Glenn Fleshler 3. Javier Bardem 4. Derek Mears 5. Dave Bautista 6. Brendan Fraser These guys are just great!

@PinataOblongata 2 ай бұрын

There's a difference between "filmable" and "profitable" or fitting into the tripe the dire film industry demands as they try to please too many people at once. If you neuter it, it won't be Blood Meridian, so if it requires an x-rating, then just give it an x-rating. It should only be adapted by someone who deeply understands and appreciates the genius of the source material and is not shy about presenting it with all all the shock and horror and evil that makes that source material as impactful as it is. I didn't mind the short that Franco produced (it can be torrented) but the guy he cast for Holden was too small and needed to be physically more imposing.

@Manikromantik 2 ай бұрын

Needs a big star and auteur director attached to make it an event film that the studio won’t meddle with and allow it to be as dark and violent as it needs to be while also being a must watch prestige picture for general audiences. That’s what the book deserves.

@missinipemagic8951 2 ай бұрын

It isn't the violence that will be the issue, its the dialogue. The book is a deep exploration of the horror of life and if the story is told without that deep exploration it will become gratuitous but if the deep exploration, through the dialogue, is included, it will become ponderous.

@jessebbedwell 2 ай бұрын

It's absolutely filmable. It simply not palatable.

@GTH321 2 ай бұрын

John Hawkes would be a great Glanton, when he played Teardrop in Winters Bone, would be good

@koa555kovacsandras5 2 ай бұрын

He is way too old

@ronaldlaperle6753 2 ай бұрын

he's too skinny. jeff bridges is the judge!

@hellbenderdesign 2 ай бұрын

I'd like to see Josh Brolin as Glanton

@adansilveira2031 2 ай бұрын

After watching Hoslites, i can't imagine other than Christian Bale to be Glanton.

@GTH321 2 ай бұрын

It can be done, casting is huge Judge will be hard to cast.

@justindavis2503 2 ай бұрын

Based on his performance as Kingpin, I think Vincent D'Onofrio might be able to pull it off.

@ericw48 2 ай бұрын

@justindavis2503 Vincent would be my first choice. He is an amazing actor, and his roles in The Cell and The Salton Sea confirm to me that he could best portray the charismatically evil Judge.

@adansilveira2031 2 ай бұрын

Matt Smith would be a perfect Judge.

@PolishGod1234 2 күн бұрын

They could just use special effects to make him bigger

@Grey-Wino389 2 ай бұрын

If this one fails, they should try to do My Confession by Samuel Chamberlain, on which Blood Meridian was based. It would be ironic if that fit filmed on its first attempt.

@BasedViking981 2 ай бұрын

I’m glad Ridley Scott and James Franco didn’t get their hands on it.

@danielwhite1233 28 күн бұрын

The test footage was actually really good, it made me hopeful for a hazy authentic movie about my favorite novel the way it felt when I first read it. Hillcoat also directed the red dead redemption machinima, which actually kind of ruled. All of his movies are well made and have that Micheal Mann level of style with some very solid grit, I think he has the attention to detail needed for a good adaptation.

@kyuss89 2 ай бұрын

I'm currently reading it. Probably the most gritty and brutal thing I have read. Love it

@IIISWILIII 2 ай бұрын

Robert Eggers needs to direct Blood Meridian period it would be amazing in his hands

@richardriley603 2 ай бұрын

There is a lot of graphic violence in the book, but it you could always be smart and make a lot of it suggestive by having some things happen off camera that you can hear or capture with somebody's facial reaction to what's happening

@grahamman80 2 ай бұрын

Exactly. Just like the snuff film from the Counselor. It's pretty clear what happens yet it doesn't take away what from the savagery of the event.

@Rancid_Sanity 2 ай бұрын

@richardriley603 2 ай бұрын

@@Rancid_Sanity you'd rather go full graphic hahahaha maybe we can get a theatrical version and an unrated version

@lilweedsea 2 ай бұрын

I think if you focus more on emphasizing the philosophical aspects and characters while using suggestive cuts for the violence could work well if done correctly

@kanejones99 Ай бұрын

Very hyped to see how it turns out, I imagine Garret Dillahunt will be starring in it too

@bribook69 Ай бұрын

The problem is not just the savage violence. It's the lack of any sympathetic characters. Even though "the kid" is presented as a main character early on, it is not really his story. Oddly, this is one of the many strengths of the book, but it could only weaken a movie or limited cable series. In the book, the steady drumbeat of savagery comes to eclipse "the kid" until the violence becomes the book's central character, with a host of other characters (Toadvine, the Judge) only there to comment on it and philosophize about it. How do you make *that* into a coherent film?

@TookieMacSpookie 2 ай бұрын

All you need is Richard Poe's narration 😊

@hellbenderdesign 2 ай бұрын

The audiobook is hands-down the best I've ever heard.

@countdukeking7249 2 ай бұрын

Word maybe my next audible

@vitorpereiradearaujo6295 Ай бұрын

and the 7'0 tall?

@wobblertv8083 Ай бұрын

He had a voice like Welles .

@johncollins211 Ай бұрын

Stellan Skarsgard must play the judge. He was great as the harkonen emperor in dune.

@matthewryan2060 2 ай бұрын

Oh cool. I’m half way through the book at the moment. It’s brutal.

@cvrry7570 Ай бұрын

Is there a release date?

@jamieellul6331 2 ай бұрын

Would the creative forces from 'Deadwood' bring any added value to an attempt to make the best of this project. They set a certain tone that was darkly impressive.

@backabeyond 2 ай бұрын

Nathan Jones should play the Judge. He was the Steve Austen looking guy from Mad Max Fury Road. Played Immorten Joes son. Trust me. He has the head and face of the Judge that you often see depicted.

@zacharybryant9881 2 ай бұрын

My favorite novel of all time, and I agree with McCarthy, the movie can be done but it won’t be easy. While Hillcoat wouldn’t have been my first choice for director, I do think if he takes the right swings he can prove tk be the right choice because of how good both The Proposition and Lawless are. The real test will be casting

@alexsetterington3142 2 ай бұрын

Ghosts Of The Civil Dead might be my favourite movie. Hillcoat did very well with that.

@niallburnside7227 2 ай бұрын

Impossible to authentically translate on to film ... Cormac was 😥the master of this type of story telling. The brutality within humans he infers in the book wouldn't be allowed. I read this book early 1990 ... and it still plays on my mind. The guy was a genius. Best American Author of his generation ... should be seen alongside Steinbeck. Ah, but whadda I know 😆I just love the guy!

@gregorycurtis7659 2 ай бұрын

I think he will be. I think the new generations of kids will be reading some McCarthy as a part of their curriculum

@jeremywanner4526 Ай бұрын

No matter who directed this book will never serve it any justice.Its an intense novel.

@WingsWithWax Ай бұрын

After seeing The Revenant, I think Tom Hardy would be a good John Glanton.

@tweebz3769 Ай бұрын

I think it would easily succeed as a show instead of a movie but who knows I will still be delighted if got a adaptation

@locksand45 Ай бұрын

The guy who played the yellow king in True detective season 1 should play the judge.

@grahamman80 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to see Guy Pierce or Crowe play the Judge.

@randallgregerson4761 2 ай бұрын

This book is not film friendly. That said, I believe there could be an adaptation for a mini series. It would be very difficult, yet, it's the only feasible way.

@CB-ke7eq 2 ай бұрын

In the Age of Streaming, tell me why movie ratings matter again?

@wobblertv8083 Ай бұрын

Orson Welles would have been Awesome as the judge ...That voice! .Shame he died when the book came out .

@dannypitcherenterprises2414 Ай бұрын

It will be very hard to pull off. A director with brass balls, Oscar worthy cinematography that lives up to McCarthy's prose and a perfect cast.

@pdzombie1906 Ай бұрын

What happened to the project from the Coen Bros ?

@lmenzol Ай бұрын

Hillcoat made such a good adaptation of The Road that he should be given the reigns of Blood Meridian

@eagle5501 Ай бұрын

Read it twice and it is incredible. It should be made as read.

@mrjoseph7056 Ай бұрын

It already year from announce of a movie. As I understand, because we don’t have any news about cast, movie was cancelled(again) after McCarthy death.

@Khan-ig5rx 24 күн бұрын

When I think about this adaption my mind goes to the final meeting between Judge Holden and The Kid. We get just enough information that we can assume the fate of The Kid in that scene, but much is left to the reader's mind. McCarthy puts you in the very uncomfortable position of filling in the details, the implied r*pe and murder and whatever else you can imagine happening in that bathroom. After this whole journey of horror and depravity, McCarthy makes you complicit in the violence, like the very human evil of these characters is a part of us too, even if it's just being expressed in the morbid imagination of a pacified mind. The narrow path an adaption would have to walk between being watered down or completely gratuitous does seem next to impossible. If they really did this book justice as a film, I don't even know if I'd want to sit through that.

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf 2 ай бұрын

Hilcoat`s The Proposition 2005 is my best film ever

@fastfight 2 күн бұрын

Perhaps as a graphic novel, to tame the chock of the violence, but still use the script and the voices and expressions of the talented actors

@euphegenia 2 ай бұрын

If you haven’t read this book yet, it should be the next book you do read. It is indeed a masterpiece. The Judge is one of the greatest villains in the history of the written word.

@AlbertSiebener 24 күн бұрын

One of my favourite novels of all time. When I read it, I imagined Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Judge and Matthew McConaughey as Glanton. (I know McConaughey looks different than what the character is being described as, but who cares.)

@ShroomyTheOne 2 ай бұрын

I dont think blood meridian would work too well as a movie, i think it would definitely work great as a limited series though

@Tomoko_Kuroki888 13 күн бұрын

Make it x rated, no holds bound, fund the sh*t out of it too and give it a great director and you might be able to do it justice. Use some and I mean very very few implications if necessary (which you probably will need).

@JacksonHess-jc4il 19 күн бұрын

I think blood Meridian would be a pretty epic movie, and I would love to see the part where the kid becomes the man

@Kevin-wb5jl Ай бұрын

If anyone has read Jaws and seen the film, it’s clear that you can make a successful film adaptation of a book, but you simply have to adapt it to the medium it will not be used. It is possible to make any novel into a great film, so long as the film doesn’t try to be exactly like the books, but keep the same spirit and themes in the story. Back to the Jaws example. In the novel Chief Brody’s wife has an affair with Hooper. The mafia is heavily involved with the Mayor. Spielberg wisely cut all that out and a lot more. And, Quint’s speech about his experience on the U.S.S Indianapolis gives a backstory to his character that is nowhere in the book. I think the film adaptation of Blood Meridian will need to do something similar. Some of the violence will need to be cut, maybe even some characters. If they simplify the story, focus on the two primary characters, The Kid and The Judge, make it an epic yet more contained story, I think it can be done! I also think a miniseries is a great idea too! :)

@superman9772 2 ай бұрын

for anyone that's not familiar with the story... it's actually just a small part of a very bloody time....i grew up there where the events occurs ... as a kid and, as well as, an adult, i searched for "lincoln's gold" which was the real life cause of all the bloodshed... never found it but the clues, hints stories that the "old timers' told me, and just some gut instincts took me from the swamp and sand of the colorado river to a little park at the bend on santa monica blvd in los angeles to vazquez's rocks/ hideout, to the gravesite of hi jolly in quartzside, az... and many places in between.... if one person really shines as the hero(ine) of those bloody events, then that person would be sarah bowman (known as the "first citizen of yuma arizona", "great western" and the "heroine of fort brown"... she saved olive oatman (some may recognize olive's photo as the pioneer woman with facial tattoos and for some reason was portrayed in the mini series "hell on wheels" and olive's family was massacred during those bloody events)... anyway, sarah was buried with full military honors and rank of a u.s. colonel at the presido in san francisco (she earned it)...and if anyone really deserves a movie portraying them, then sarah bowman sure does...

@TheVoodoobz Ай бұрын

I would like to comment that I would really love to see this made into a movie. Even if it gets a non rating or a X rating. The story deserves to be shown on film. Without cutting out the brutality.

@metsrus 2 ай бұрын

Movies need a good plot to be good, I'm afraid that's not the strength of Blood Meridian. Blood Meridian's strengths are the philosophy, theme, and narration put beautifully into words by Cormac and something that can't be easily reproduced on film. At best, it'll turn out to be your standard modern western action movie that will be quickly forgotten

@magtinfal7908 21 күн бұрын

We have Terrifier 2 and people still think Blood Meridian is unfilmable?

@lollandgibbons878 Ай бұрын

The day I finished reading blood meridian was the same day cormac died I was gutted

@hellbenderdesign 2 ай бұрын

I'm hoping they can pull off the balance needed - an extraordinary hyper-real landscape, an almost surrealistic beauty to counter the violence and depravity of the scalp hunters. That said, a miniseries would be a better approach.

@rawreviewsandreactions6434 Ай бұрын

John hillcoat is directing and I’m pumped

@wades4253 2 ай бұрын

I thought you might tell us something we didn't already know.

@RSdd11 Ай бұрын

Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now is The Judge. I'm not sure who could play this role. Maybe Holt McCallany with a different version of "The Beast" from "Shot Caller". Bardem nailed various parallels as Anton Chigurh with the philosophical preaching moments, but was different in that the judge can also charm and manipulate people in a social setting.

@PolishGod1234 2 күн бұрын

I'm sure McCarthy was inspired by Brando from Apocalypse Now when writing the character of the Judge. They share too many symiliarites for it to be a coincidence

@johnorourke2279 2 ай бұрын

Scalphunters was quite comedic in moments, not surprising given the four leading actors but yes this attempt would need to be several hours long and the actors well chosen

@giovannizito5437 2 ай бұрын

Hope they do it...a day or another...

@geoid5388 Ай бұрын

Half of the scenes with the judge would probably be removed in the film version, if it ever gets finished.

@anonymousbosch9265 2 ай бұрын

If they could capture the brutality in the same way they did in “The Proposition” I think we’ll have something

@dantediss1 24 күн бұрын

It is not that i think it cannot be filmed,... i just feel as if it will not be done correctly. The violence has layers, it is hard to portray that

@user-fg3bn6nj8v 2 ай бұрын

Paul Thomas Anderson or Fincher could do a good job. Maybe Fincher could do it as a series. Although I would imagine that would be a harder sell than a feature.

@alexsetterington3142 2 ай бұрын

Yes P.T Anderson would be one of my first choices. Coen brothers obviously.

@mattturner7531 2 ай бұрын

Should be a HBO series, mix in Nic Pizzolatto and the Coen Brothers to write/produce/direct

@karenandrews4224 2 ай бұрын

No Country for Old Men was enough

@thecosmicaesthetic 2 ай бұрын

They need to lean into the violence and make the grittiest western in existence. Westerns are about to become trendy again, so let's start with Blood Meridian. As long as they realize the dark beauty that makes the book so appealing is necessary for the adaptation.

@broccoli919 2 ай бұрын

Shot for shot scene for scene. Director: Eli Roth (lol)

@jackjames2808 2 ай бұрын

Director of the Road, don't want to get my hopes up.. but this is very promising

@Ben-vt8ne Ай бұрын

Someone please name an actor between the ages of 40-55 who could possibly pull off the Judge. I either hear actors who seem to old, or hear of actors who are in the right age range but lack the chops for the Judges demeanor and delivery.

@nickspencer8366 2 ай бұрын

director shortlist imo : Lars von Trier, Panos Cosmatos, S Craig Zahler

@TomFooleryTheAustere 2 ай бұрын

One of the problems now is, given the social discourse we’re already submerged in, few will be able to handle the violence anytime a white man does anything to anyone nonwhite, which happens A LOT in the book. There isn’t much of a target audience equipped with the intellect (or coping mechanisms) to absorb what the story is trying to convey.

@KristianSkylstad Ай бұрын

It should be a TV series.

@reezethevampire Ай бұрын

From what I understand, the violence hasn't been the main issue with an adaptation. Sure, it's playing apart, but the main reason it'll be so difficult to put to film is because our protagonist 'The Kid' is effectively absent through half the book. During a vast majority of the action sequences, The Kid is never described doing anything. This means The Kid is extremely vague as a character - is he as brutal as the others? Does he join out of fear of being killed if he didn't? Does he hide during the violence? We don't know. What makes Blood Meridian unfilmable is that it's centered on a protagonist that was written to allow the reader to speculate their morality, which you can't do very well in a movie.

@johnnythewicked 20 күн бұрын

I think it’d make a beautiful film but you can’t cut out the violence, that’s so important to the themes of the book. I think the director would have to have a lot of implied violence that leaves it up to the imagination or approach it as a Western-Horror

@loudtaste1046 2 ай бұрын

It should be a tv show

@rile2 2 ай бұрын

I'm all for it

@alakabambram8436 Ай бұрын

When watching a successful movie adaptation vs an unsuccessful one I have noticed a few things. Successful adaptations dont necessarily need to be faithful to the story, just faithful to the message. Dune2 as a very recent example. There are several major deviations from the plot of the book; however, the themes and messages are solid between the two in my opinion. This makes a very interesting and faithful feeling movie. Dune 1987 did not adhere to the themes and messages of the story and instead injected its own while just following the story beats of the book. Making the movie just okay. So the movie does not need to be a one to one adaptation, in fact I think it would be really hard to watch if it was.

@justinratcliffe947 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, Blood Meridian most likely can't work as a full length film. However, I definitely see it working as an HBO tv series which I really think could definitely work. BUT...if they actually can make a successful film adaptation of it, Im all for it

@gazbomb74 Ай бұрын

I think a frank miller style (sin city) Type adaptation would be perfect but not sure about director perhaps Cohen brothers after the job they did with no country