Is it too soon to anticipate Ridley Scott's "Blood Meridian"?

and of course: Is there any way this won't suck?

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just sayin'

A seven-foot-tall, completely hairless pedophile murderer and philosopher?

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xp lol

give henry rollins some stilts

dude was born for this shit

ron perlman yo

but i think he should be in every movie

this should be an HBO miniseries

Perlman would have the physical presence, I guess, but I doubt he could avoid seeming very hammy.

at a certain point in the book i realized i was picturing the judge as peter garrett.

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i can imagine a movie of the book, but it's hard to imagine a good one (or one that hits the book's balance of allegory, history and phantasmagory).

i realized i was picturing the judge as peter garrett

ha, me too! I mean, I didn't think of his name or his band or anything, but the picture I had in my had was pretty exactly Peter Garrett, now that I think of it.

yeahhhhh i don't know how this movie is a gonna work

too bad brando is dead!

Who needs actors when you have CGI?

Patton Oswalt can do the voice.

haha.

"War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. Also, if you lose a fight to a midget, you become one."

Same screenwriter as The Departed -- that's promising.

for some reason I always picture the judge as rather corpulent - more Brando than Garrett

same here

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too short

I'm gonna pull for John Goodman.

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for the love of god please not that half-actor chiklis.

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD.

This is my favorite McCarthy book so I am going to be unbelievably hard on Ridley Scott to make this perfect. Dead babies hangin' from bushes!

Terry O'Quinn is a good choice.

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as far as ratings are concerned, films are rated NC-17 for sex, not violence. (see old adage about the MPAA preferring breasts being cut off to being caressed)

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john goodman could be kinda brilliant

This thread title sounds like kenan is anxiously awaiting Ridly Scott's transition into young womanhood.

dood its a book title

no menstruation is involved

Tracer's right tho, it'd be a better miniseries. This thing's going to get hacked up for theatrical release worse than Kingdom of Heaven.

ya dan you completely misunderstood this thread!! xp

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stood on two paint cans

Could we convince Ray Winstone to shave his head?

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You know it.

no guys dan is right, "the evening redness in the west" is a euphemism for menstruation

as far as ratings are concerned, films are rated NC-17 for sex, not violence

not generally, but when you have an infant's brains being dashed out on a rock... well.

Could we convince Ray Winstone to shave his head?

That's interesting. The Proposition seems like a good analog to this. Or should be.

this gonna either totally suck or never get made, no?

also, the road http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367

why does ILX seem to give me so many opportunities to post this?

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10. "The evening redness in the west"

not generally, but when you have an infant's brains being dashed out on a rock... well.

sure but there's a million ways to effectively shoot such a scene without explicitly showing the baby's brains splattering or whatever else the MPAA might find specifically objectionable.

also, the road http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367

Guy Pearce's been cast as the lead in this.

sure but there's a million ways to effectively shoot such a scene without explicitly showing the baby's brains splattering or whatever else the MPAA might find specifically objectionable.

I kinda think the MPAA's going to have a problem with baby murdering, period.

I'm trying to think of other films where its happened but uh I'm a little hesitant to google "baby murder movie"

Zodiac comes close

also, the road http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367

Guy Pearce's been cast as the lead in this.

no viggo ? :(

hmm there's babies killed in I, Claudius, but that wasn't subject to the MPAA...

oh oh a little girl gets shot in (original) Assault on Precinct 13. It was rated X, mostly 'cause of that.
xp

no Viggo, I was pulling for him too. :(

The guy who directed The Proposition and now Thhe Road is creepy-looking enough for Judge Holden.

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That, or high-school gym teacher.

i like guy pearce a lot tho too

he doesn't seem like a "dad" to me, but maybe that's appropriate and maybe lol that's why they call 'em "actors".

im thinking maybe hell be able to portray the "fuck-up" aspect better than viggo who is just sort of super-human

uh "deperate fuck-up" maybe - not really sure what im getting at here except that i dont think viggo would lose track of the boy while looking for beans or whatever

of course he wouldn't, he's aragorn.

more on topic: what is the likelihood the Kid will be played by ornaldo bloomps?

It's Ridley Scott, so you know it's going to be Russell and Denzel, with a Walken cameo.

Kurt Russell as the judge?

dude I love Kurt Russell, but no. Absolutely Not.

joeks!

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of course he wouldn't, he's aragorn.

well yeah but its not just that see: history of violence and eastern promises and just his total hero vibe

more on topic: what is the likelihood the Kid will be played by ornaldo bloomps?

this could work especially if they cgi shrunk him down hobbit style

My wife's sources say Guy Pearce has been cast, but Viggo's still the dad.

Is it too soon to anticipate Ridley Scott's "Blood Meridian"? seems like a super-unwieldy book title.

whos pearce then?

there arent really any other characters except maybe the flash back wifey

i mean bloomps is already the boy

Unless they mess with the book wholesale, I guess Pearce will be

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the guy who steals their stuff, the one the father makes strip when he takes it back. Small part, but it's the only one I can think of big enough for a recognizable actor.

i wouldnt think he'd be down for just one scene but maybe cause the proposition guy is directing

Is it too soon to anticipate Ridley Scott's "Blood Meridian"? seems like a super-unwieldy book title.

Only one more word than "Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West" lol

casting for the kid in blood meridian: michael cera? shia labeouf? logan lerman?

also, russell crowe would be best dad for 'the road.'

the kid in the book is like what, 10?

crowe otm

8?

i meant the kid in blood meridian., wh i think is about 15 at the beginning.

kid in "the road" will probably be some "discovery" who will get nominated for supporting actor. (with crack addiction etc to follow.)

oh yeah you did say "casting for the kid in blood meridian" right there

lol matt damon as the kid in all the pretty horses

Yeah, casting call in MO for the kid in "The Road" specifically said "no acting experience necessary."

did it say what age they were looking for?

Mrs. Hardy says the 7-10 range, but doesn't recall for certain.

casting for the kid in blood meridian: michael cera? shia labeouf? logan lerman?

Paul Dano?

I was also referring to Blood Meridian Kid casting upthread. Oh Bloomps.

For the kid in The Road I want them to travel back in time and get the feral kid from THE ROAD WARRIOR.

michael cera?

Yes. I want to see people scalped alive, but with the underconfident, cagey charm of an awkward teenager.

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There really isn't anyone else that Pierce COULD play, except for:
- Dude who gets shot by Dad with the first of the remaining to bullets
- Old guy who they feed
- Guy who steals their shit
- Man at end who finds the boy

This is, of course, taking that Viggo is still to be the dad. I think that Pierce could TOTALLY pull of the desparate loser of the dad in "The Road."

Also, for the record, who the fuck ISN'T a desparate loser in a post-apocalyptic landscape without growing food sources or hope? I mean, dude tried his godamn hardest, didn't he?

I amend my last statement. He had hope. Maybe that's why he was a loser.

he was good at keeping him and his son alive w/o victimizing others

I love both these books and, to be honest, I'll be happy if just one of the two movies does a decent job. More pragmatic than the dad in The Road, perhaps. ;)

Guys I loved Blood Meridian & hated The Road. What is wrong with me.

i need to read blood meridian again.

i love blood meridian and thought the road was a good breezy read. they're totally different books and operate on very different levels. of the two, the road makes much more sense as a movie. it was practically written as one.

If they make a movie of Blood Meridian, I don't think I will go see it. I just can't imagine it doing anything even resembling justice to the book, and I really don't want to ruin my mental conception of it. That is so old fashioned, but it's true.

Yeah, I have higher hopes for The Road, the narrative is almost entirely told in small bite-sized frames, but they could really screw up those odd mythological bookends. That creature! Blood Meridian is less obvious, less fabulous (in the fable sense), but presents more opportunities to really fuck up. Did somebody suggest Ray Winstone for Judge Holden? You know, even if they were kidding, I think he might be a great choice if they give him some illusory height (as well as shave all the hair off his head and face as well as lose the London accent, etc). Sadly, the best options are all dead (Brando, Pleasance, Brynner)... Hmmm, what about Robert Duvall with an extra thirty pounds? Too old? But some of the characters in this story are actors dreams -- Toadvine, Tobin the ex-priest, Glanton, etc.

(That said, I understand Jenny's post completely. I just think I'd end up being tempted to see it anyway.)

so uh is this still happening?

while reading, i've always had the judge as probably charles durning, except specifically when the height aspect has been mentioned, when i default to brando at the "apocalypse now" stage.

the imdb page lists todd field as the director now, but even that hasn't been updated since april. i don't think it's going to happen, which is just as well. ridley's last word on it seems to be this:

think it's a really tricky one, and maybe it's something that should be left as a novel. If you're going to do Blood Meridian you've got to go the whole nine yards into the blood bath, and there's no answer to the blood bath, that's part of the story, just the way it is and the way it was.

yeah. there's not much in the way of a lucid story progression, that's for sure. it would need to be 6 hours long and utterly relentless in terms of the gore.

too short

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interesting casting choice

lol

If Meryl Streep can convincingly play tall in "Julia & Julia" and PS Hoffman can convincingly play short and slight in "Capote," any actor is really in play. Perhaps Peter Dinklage, against type?