Cormac McCarthy fans...begin weeping now

[MrCoffee]

Ridley Scott is directing Blood Meridian. :cry:

[Shakespeare]

1. Aw, fuck.

That's his masterpiece. Ridley better not fuck it up.

[MrCoffee]

2. I know...of all the novels Ridley could fuck up, why Blood Meridian?

Why?

[PVnRT]

8. Probably didn't read it, based on Blade Runner

Of course, neither have I, but I just wanted to get in a cheap shot at Ridley.

[cemaphonic]

3. Hmm, did it make it out of script development Purgatory?

IMDB still shows no cast, not even a speculative one, which is usually a good sign that things are still at the "maybe" stage. Any news stuff about it? I was wondering if the success of "No Country for Old Men" would get it moving forward.

I personally hope that a movie version of Blood Meridian stays on ice until they can figure out a way to resurrect Sam Peckinpah.

Jim Jarmusch can do "Outer Dark." Other than those two, Hollywood should stay away from McCarthy.

[Shakespeare]

4. Jarmusch only does movies he writes himself, though.

So we better figure out how to reanimate old Sam. ;-)

[Kutjara]

5. Oh goodie! I wonder which members of the Glanton gang...

...will turn out to be Replicants...

[My Good Babushka]

6. noooooooooo

Blood Meridian is my most favoritest McCarthy book! I want Guillermo Del Toro to do it, or Philip Ridley.

[Redneck Socialist]

7. Ooooohhhhhh Nnnnnooooooo!

I'm terrified that it is going to suck.

[Orrex]

9. I first heard about this around a year ago

If he directs Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian rather than Ridley Scott's Please Love Me and Tell Me I'm Not a Hack, it might be okay.


This is one of my all time favorite books. If Scott fucks it up, I'm going to sic Caballo en Pelo on him.