'Blood Meridian' Gets Writer William Monahan

[Monday, May 10th, 2004]
Blood Meridian Novel
Blood Meridian Novel
Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel Blood Meridian is getting another writer this time in the form of William Monahan with Ridley Scott who has been approached to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Published before the trilogy in 1985, Blood Meridian, declared by some critics as one of the great novels of the 20th century, takes place on the Texas/Mexico border and looks at the uncompromising depiction of a crucial junction in American history. Set in the 1840s, the story centers on a young boy who gets in with a gang of outlaws employed by the territorial governors to clear Indians from the Mexican border area.

In the last incarnation of Blood Meridian in the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones was set to direct and rewrite Steve Tesich's adaptation and take a small role in McCarthy's dark Western.

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