So Cormac McCarthy's western novel Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West is getting a movie adaptation, directed by John Hillcoat (director of The Proposition, a Western film set in Australia, The Road, an adapation of another of McCarty's works, and a promo film for Red Dead Redemption.)

Some people have been complaining that Hillcoat isn't the guy that should be up for this task. Many have said that the director of Blood Meridian: The Movie should've been PTA or Malick. Personally I think Bela Tarr should've been the one to take the reins but idk what he's up to now.

As anyone who's read the book knows, a lot of Blood Meridian's genius comes from its prose and McCarthy descriptive writing, its focus on the horrific violence of the American frontier, and its larger-than-life characters like Judge Holden. Because of this, many believe that the book can't be adapted into a movie, despite what McCarthy himself has said. Me personally I think it could be adapted as McCarthy's writing usually focuses a lot on grand landscapes that could be well put on screen, as seen in No Country For Old Men and casting shouldn't be difficult as long as the actors understand each character precisely.

The one issue really is the violence. I can't think of any mainstream piece of work that has the same level of graphic violence that Blood Meridian shows and I'm not sure something like the MPAA would allow a high-budget film to include babies impaled on tree branches. And the violence should be shown for the horrible thing it is, not in some slasher flick way like in the Terrifier movies. The worst thing that could happen to this adaptation is that the studio executives market the movie this way.

Any other things to consider about the upcoming movie leave down below.