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invention · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:34 am **Posts:** 12029

written and directed by James Franco?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/0 ... 03791.html

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

I don't see this ending well.

Mickey · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:57 am

Franco is a damn good actor, but this seems like a bad idea, if nothing else because now I won't be able to talk about Blood Meridian and sound deep.

Spoiler: show: Gotta read this shit before it becomes the new "it" book

I Hail Randy Moss · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am **Posts:** 6099

And "As I Lay Dying". The son of a bitch is doing two of my favorite books. I gotta get to LA or New York quick. If this ain't a sign to get my ass moving then I don't know what is.

I really can't see a beginning director pulling off "Blood Meridian" but you know what? Fuck it, I respect his ambition. I thought Todd Field was helming that though?

durdencommatyler · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:57 pm

Wow.

Good luck, Franco. Don't fuck it up.

ScottZeagle · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:08 pm

As much as I love this book, I hate to see the dude fuck it up.

If he doesn't use Ben Nichols (from the band Lucero) music, it is a sure sign that shit ain't right.

If y'all haven't heard that EP, and you are a fan of Blood Meridian, check it out.... http://www.amazon.com/Last-Pale-Light-W ... B001MW0IWU

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:11 pm

I'm not sure anybody should attempt this.

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

Nick Cave already did it, music, script and all, and he didn't even bother making his movie an adaptation. The Proposition captured the essence of Blood Meridian better than Franco can hope to.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:25 pm

withoutrings wrote:

Nick Cave already did it, music, script and all, and he didn't even bother making his movie an adaptation. The Proposition captured the essence of Blood Meridian better than Franco can hope to.

I saw The Proposition before reading Blood Meridian, but I definitely thought of the film as I read the book.

I Hail Randy Moss · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am **Posts:** 6099

Wallstreet Journal November 13th, 2009 (Cormac Mccarthy)

People have said "Blood Meridian" is unfilmable beause of the sheer darkness and violence of the story.

CM: That's all crap. The fact that's it's a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen. That's not the issue. The issue is it would be very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:31 pm

I wonder if Cormac has seen The Wild Bunch.

I Hail Randy Moss · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am **Posts:** 6099

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I wonder if Cormac has seen The Wild Bunch.

probably.

Judge Holden--William Holden. Band of murdering outlaws near the Mexico border.

Probably just coincidence.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:37 pm

I wonder if Cormac has seen The Wild Bunch thread.

I Hail Randy Moss · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am **Posts:** 6099

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I wonder if Cormac has seen The Wild Bunch thread.

he'd probably shake his head and wonder why today's youth is so sick and moronic.

He also has a love affair with the movie Five Easy Pieces and I can see him using some of that in "Suttree". But we don't have a thread for that film.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:41 pm

I Hail Randy Moss wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I wonder if Cormac has seen The Wild Bunch thread.

he'd probably shake his head and wonder why today's youth is so sick and moronic.

He also has a love affair with the movie Five Easy Pieces and I can see him using some of that in "Suttree". But we don't have a thread for that film.

yet

I Hail Randy Moss · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am **Posts:** 6099

well, you don't have to worry about me starting one. I don't have the heart to watch you fellas degrade another classic.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:53 pm

Well that's just going to have to be your loss.

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:37 pm

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Well that's just going to have to be your loss.

I Hail Randy Moss wrote:

I'm pretty deep, but Faulkner is the deepest you can reach--in which I know of anyway.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:42 pm

Owl_Farmer wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Well that's just going to have to be your loss.

I Hail Randy Moss wrote:

I'm pretty deep, but Faulkner is the deepest you can reach--in which I know of anyway.

Haha, is that real?

withoutrings · **Joined:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am **Posts:** 6234

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