People have been trying, for at least 20 years, to turn Cormac McCarthy’s Western opus Blood Meridian into a movie—and every single one of them has failed. Big names, too: Ridley Scott moved heaven or hell to try to get the movie made in the 2000s, and Tommy Lee Jones, who would later star in the Coens’ adaptation of McCarthy’s less nihilistic and bloody—if only by comparison—No Country For Old Men, even tried to touch up a version of a screenplay himself a few years prior. McCarthy always... Read this story
