A strange tale has emerged from the Cannes Film Festival overnight, with Cormac McCarthy adaptation Blood Meridian shelved mere hours after details of the film were first announced reports Deadline.
James Franco (The Masterpiece) had been set to star and direct the adaptation, with Russell Crowe (The Nice Guys) co-starring alongside Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil). However it seems that the filmmakers were yet to secure the rights to the material, and the project has now been shelved..
McCarthy’s acclaimed 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.”
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Originally published May 6, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
