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The “Blood Meridian” film will be directed by Australian-Canadian filmmaker John Hillcoat.

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Several attempts to adapt the book have already been tried, with directors like Tommy Lee Jones, Ridley Scott, James Franco, and Todd Field attached at various points, but all have been abandoned. The book initially received mixed reviews and lukewarm sales but has since been reevaluated as a classic and a subversive work in the Western genre.ĭespite the novel’s fame, it has a reputation for being unfilmable due to its graphic content, dark tone, and introspective narrative. A film version of Cormac McCarthy‘s “Blood Meridian” is in the works at New Regency, sources confirmed to IndieWire.įirst published in 1985, “Blood Meridian” is set in the 1850s and focuses on an unnamed teenager known only as “the kid” as he journeys across the American West and falls in with the Glanton gang, a real-life group of scalp hunters who targeted Indians along the Texas-Mexico border. One of the most beloved novels from the author behind “The Road” and “No Country For Old Men” is finally getting its own screen adaptation.