/lit/ - Literature

>>20338465
Claymation

>>20338465
60% of the runtime is made up of landscape shots

>>20338465
I wouldn't

>>20338465
3 amateur actors interpreting all of the roles in the book, with costumes rented from the local Halloween costumes shop, shot in some guy's backyard, featuring obnoxious product placement at every single opportunity we can find, and filmed using an iPhone.

>>20338465
Only the genuis of James Franco could bring this to life. James Franco as the Kid, Danny McBride as Glanton, and Jonah Hill as the Judge. Instant classic.

>>20338465
Sam Peckingpah is the only director that could make it.

Huh? Are you baiting? There's already a movie made on this you retard. It's called No Country for Old Men. It's pretty good.

>>20338465
Animation like the late 90s Spawn HBO series. All the gore, surreal landscape shots, and narration you like. You wouldn't have to be limited by run-time either.

>>20338531
oh yea lets turn blood meridian into a stoner comedy add in seth rogan as the judge and it basically writes itself

>>20338471
kek

>>20338465
I wouldn’t.

Memes aside, it can't be done. And if attempted would just be another western

If it was made into a miniseries itd probably be better than the book because you'd at least be impressed with the landscape and the gore and makeup design

>>20338465
I feel if any director could do the book justice, it would be Terrence Malick

>>20338465
a Denis Villeneuve adaptation would be kino

Yes but it wouldn’t really be called a film. I’d say it’s definitely worth adapting, but as a visual library of sorts, instead of just a normal film.
Many hours of film set up in many parts/episodes. One for each chapter. Must have the same raw and almost impersonal aura of the book. No fluff, just presenting the events of the book on screen as rawly as possible.
Kinda like the Mormon Bible videos on YouTube. Very boring and plain but that’s the point. It gets the story across without holding your hand.

CGI John Wayne as the Judge

How about an album?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o

>>20338465
Give it to Tarantino.

>>20339932
Sure if you want some soulless hackjaob. Deakins isn't married to Villeneuve you know.

I wouldn't. It wouldn't work as a movie
suttree would work better as a HBO style mini-series.

It’s really not unfilmable. One of the main reasons people say this is the violence, but worse things have been depicted before. Also, much of it can be implied. The Northman featured a Viking raid where children were killed off camera and women were implicitly passed around and raped. Plus I think Robert Eggers would be a good director for Blood Meridian, though I think he’d better do a Moby Dick movie instead.

>>20340393
Robert Eggers is doomed to make the same movie for his entire career

>>20338471
Lol get aardman to do it
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>>20338539
or the birdemic guy, whichever, same level of crap

>>20338465
Give it to Herzog, he could adapt it

James Franco should do it with Idris Elba as the judge

>>20339932
He's a fraud

Why a film? It would work as a limited 6-7 episode series IMO but not a film.

>>20340786
Blood Meridian actually has literary merit, it doesn’t reserve the Stephen King miniseries treatment.

>>20340792

I agree, but I think there’s too much density in it for a film unless they go for 3+ hours at least. I feel like it would have to be very slow, atmospheric and contemplative in between all the chaos or else it might just look like a normal action western.

It would never happen, natives being portrayed as savages would make people seethe.

I'm still not sure whether the Coens could have pulled it off or nah.
NCFOM was great, but McCarthy clearly wrote that book with a screenplay in mind.
BM is a different beast, and while pretty much anyone could make a movie that follows its basic story beats, capturing what makes it a good book would be much harder than that.
A Suttree adaptation by them would have been guaranteed kino though, shame they split up.

>>20338596
For your sake I hope you're joking.

>>20338646
Unironically sounds like a good movie

>>20338646
The scene at the end with the Judge dancing on the tables except Seth Rogen falls off and hits his head, ending the movie with a hilarious bit of slapstick comedy perfectly encapsulating the tone of Blood Meridian

>>20341148
Really out of all the people on Earth you pick the two biggest Jewish nerds in Hollywood. You wouldn't know taste or violence if it took you in the ass by force.

>>20338465
Tarantino could do it

>>20338465
Like with Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now!, you would have to adapt it maybe use the war in Afghanistan or Iraq as a setting, while you follow a platoon into the mountains hunting the taliban

>>20338465
I think Iñarritu could make it something like The Revenant with a grander scale.

>>20338465
where to start with this guy? is this it?

>>20339932
Doug Walker in the role of a lifetime

>>20338465
I wouldn’t adapt it.

>>20338465
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