Ridley Scott Explains Why BLOOD MERIDIAN Adaptation Didn’t Happen
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Ridley Scott’s THE COUNSELOR, based on Cormac McCarthy’s original screenplay opens nationwide this weekend (read co-blogger JEREMY CAESAR’s review of the film). But what happened to that other Cormac McCarthy project that Ridley Scott was attached to a few years back, the adaptation of McCarthy’s book, BLOOD MERIDIAN which was scripted by The Departed scribe, William Monahan?! Scott explains what happened to Time Out.“[Studios] didn’t want to make it. The book is so uncompromising, which is what’s great about it. It would have been rated double-X. It’s Hieronymus Bosch, the way McCarthy describes the first time you see several hundred horses with bones and feathers on them, and you can’t see a rider until you’re staring at the Comanche. It’s horrific. He writes in visual images which are spectacular, so it suits me down to the ground.”Here’s the book‘s synopsis..
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “wild west.” Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
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