Most recently, he directed several episodes of the Showtime miniseries “George & Tammy.” This is the second time Hillcoat worked on an adaptation of McCarthy’s work in 2009, he directed “The Road,” a feature based on the author’s 2006 novel, to generally positive reviews. The “Blood Meridian” film will be directed by Australian-Canadian filmmaker John Hillcoat. 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. author, with some dubbing it the perfect example of the Great American Novel.Despite the novel’s fame, it has a reputation for being unfilmable due to its graphic content, dark tone, and introspective narrative. However, it has gone onto garner massive acclaim since its publication, and is often considered one of the greatest-ever novels by a U.S. The extremely violent book wasn't initially received well. Based on semi-historical events, the book tracks the Kid's life as he gets intertwined into the westward American expansion of the mid-1850s, and stumbles onto a gang of rangers on the U.S.-Mexican border that kill and scalp Native Americans.
However, McCarthy's novel, first published in 1985 as Blood Meridian or, the Evening Redness in the West, is set in the American west and follows a fictional Tennessee 14-year-old known as the Kid. Significant details on the film remain slim, with no cast having been announced yet.
The project will be directed by John Hillcoatand based on the iconic book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. Now, Deadline reports that New Regency is slated to adapt the Western Blood Meridian into a feature film. There have been no shortage of Westerns lately, as the genre seems to have gotten a resurgence in recent years.
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