By Multiple Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (“Gladiator”, “Skyfall,” “The Last Samurai”) has been set to pen the long-gestating film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” at New Regency.
John Hillcoat (“The Proposition,” “Lawless”), who previously helmed a McCarthy adaptation with “The Road,” will direct and produce along with Keith Redmon.
Logan says in a statement: “Blood Meridian has been one of my favorite novels since first reading it in 1985. It’s a majestic, beautiful and uncompromising book and I’m thrilled to be able to help bring Cormac McCarthy’s dark masterpiece to the screen.”
Widely considered one of the greatest works of American literature, and “No Country for Old Men” author McCarthy’s most brutal work, the 1985 book is set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s.
It follows the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennesseean and their experience with a group of scalp hunters who massacred Native Americans and others in the borderlands for bounty, pleasure, and eventually out of compulsion.
Back in early June last year, shortly after Hillcoat boarded the project, it was revealed McCarthy was working on the script with Hillcoat. Two weeks later came the news that McCarthy had died.
Hillcoat and Keith Redmon will produce, whilst McCarthy’s son John Francis McCarthy will serve as executive producer. The author will receive a posthumous executive producer credit.
The likes of Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tommy Lee Jones, Todd Field, Michael Haneke and James Franco were all attached to earlier attempts to produce the film with none making it before the cameras.
Source: Deadline
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