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Author Cormac McCarthy Dead at 89 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[-] luciferrodeo@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

Damn, sad to hear. Incredibly unique writer. Heard he was working on the screenplay for Blood Meridian recently with John Hillcoat, I hope they were able to get some good work done on that, I would love to see that book attempted on the big screen. RIP

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

There have been many attempts to adapt blood meridian, I still cant see how it would work unless it was like 6 hours long but I would love to see it given a real, high budget, big name attempt.

It would be a very difficult watch, but sometimes thats a good thing.

[-] luciferrodeo@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Absolutely, I don't know how it could be crammed into a single film. Maybe a two-parter, but even then it seems too ambitious. That's why its such a tragedy, as the original author was working on a screenplay for it. He'd be the man to get the job done. And John Hillcoat directed the film version of The Road and he also did The Proposition, so I feel like with the two of them working on it it's closer than ever before to being a reality. Here's hoping for a good film outcome to arguably his best work.

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