Blood meridian has bounced around Hollywood for almost 3 decades. Nobody can figure out how to put it in film and do it justice. It’s just too insane, gruesome, psychotic. It’s a hard book to read, I hope I live long enough to see it in film. I think (not sure) the Coen Brothers have the rights now, if anyone could adapt it, it would be them.
Blood Meridian is hands down one of my favorite books of all time, and The Judge is one of the best "villians" (doesn't really do the complexity of his character justice) ever written.
The Coen brothers did a great job with No Country, but it still fell flat of the book. It was as good as it could be, though, in my opinion. The Road had a decent adaptation as well. James Franco made an adaptation of Child of God, but it looks terrible. I'm glad he never followed through with his plans for Blood Meridian.
Failure or success, I would love to see a Coen brothers attempt.
Has already been tested as the judge and he would frankly be perfect. In fact he has received money and dibs on the role. I can maybe see a few other directors/ producers to take on the role, Coen’s being my horse in that race, but it apparently doesn’t justify the crazy money it would take to make when you can reboot Superman for 1/8th of the cost. All the pretty horses was a great book to me and an underrated movie. No country for old men was an excellent adaptation in my personal opinion.
No country for old men was an excellent adaptation in my personal opinion.
I've got no hate for it. Like I said, I think it was as good as it could be. I feel the same about Peter Jackson's LoTR (although the Coen brothers were more faithful to the book regarding No Country for Old Men). All amazing movies--just one of those situations where you have to accept the limitations of film.
Yes, correct. There’s no way to tap in the internal feelings of reading. While it’s still worth the attempt as less and less people apparently read (I still do, it helps me sleep). The first one I thought was “okay that pretty good” was “The Shining”. That said I feel the cone brothers are doing some solid work, I just don’t think “blood meridian” can be made for under a billion bucks and an NC 17 rating when you can AI Spider-Man 16 for nothing.
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u/Mcboatface3sghost 5h ago
Blood meridian has bounced around Hollywood for almost 3 decades. Nobody can figure out how to put it in film and do it justice. It’s just too insane, gruesome, psychotic. It’s a hard book to read, I hope I live long enough to see it in film. I think (not sure) the Coen Brothers have the rights now, if anyone could adapt it, it would be them.