No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

But whatever you do, your life and the lives of your family would be totally different with that kind of money. You can even donate a few bucks to a charity of your choice.

You can eat at Chipotle every day until you die, or you can finally complete your collection of rare Game Boy games. In a 2014 essay for Vice, Franco addressed that Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese were rumored to have tried and failed to adapt Blood Meridian as well.Seven million dollars can change your life. James Franco gave it an attempt a few years later, with Variety reporting in 2016 that Russell Crowe was in talks to star - and then, that very same day, reporting that the project fell apart due to issues with the book rights. Ridley Scott would give it another go in the 2000s, but he too told Eclipse Magazine in 2008 that the violence was proving difficult to work with, leading to him leaving the project. The project didn't move forward, however, with Jones citing Hollywood studios' aversion to the violence as the main obstacle. Tommy Lee Jones was the first to acquire the film rights in the late 1990s after Steve Tesich wrote an initial screenplay for it in 1995. In fact, it's commonly been called 'unfilmable' due to its violence and themes, but McCarthy's pushed back on that assertion, telling the Wall Street Journal in 2009 it would be 'very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. While other McCarthy novels have gotten film adaptations, including Oscar Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men, getting Blood Meridian to the big screen hasn't gone as smoothly, with several attempts coming and going throughout the years.

Blood Meridian's Rocky Road to the Big Screen Notoriously violent, it wasn't initially well received critically, but has since gone on to be considered one of the great American novels.

Reps for New Regency and Hillcoat, who directed another McCarthy adaptation in 2009's The Road, did not respond to IGN's request for comment.īlood Meridian is loosely based on the events of westward American expansion of the 1850s and follows a protagonist known as 'the kid' as he gets wrapped up in a gang rangers at the U.S.-Mexico border who kill and scalp Native Americans. According to a report in Deadline today, New Regency is on board to produce the adaptation of McCarthy’s 1985 historical epic, with John Hillcoat set to direct.

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy