The Road director John Hillcoat is set to return to the world of Cormac McCarthy by bringing the author’s Blood Meridian to the big-screen.
According to Deadline the Lawless director will work from a script written by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Skyfall, Alien: Covenant, Michael).
Hillcoat told Deadline that “After years of dreaming and scheming about adapting this great work into a movie, after years of discussing adaptation ideas with Cormac, we are excited to have the writer John Logan weigh in with his passion and understanding of Cormac’s sensibility, to help bring Blood Meridian the movie to fruition.”
Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed 1985 novel is based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s and traces the journey of the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world when he joins a ruthless gang of scalp-hunters that includes the mysterious and menacing Judge Holden.
Previous McCarthy novels to get the big-screen treatment have included the Academy Award winning No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, and 2013 stinker The Counselor.
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