Yeah I don't know how you do it without neutering the point of the book and characters. Other shows were able to do it, the but the point of the gang, especially the Judge, is that they are violence incarnate, so who knows.
Where many trailers these days suck, the campaign of short previews and snippets for this film so far has been brilliant— they reveal nothing yet the film looks scary as hell.
There's no way a Blood Meridian Movie would work. I think it would have to be a mini series, and even then it would be confusing and depressing as hell to watch.
It can’t be done. You want “unfilmable”? There’s your book. And not because of it being too cosmic or difficult, but simply based on its honest horrific-ness. It’s the best, the most horrifying book you can read. Go back and read the scenes involving the judge and the idiot and tell me that can be put on film. A book that incredible only deserves a movie/series that will be as good as it. And you can’t put that shit on film without an X-rating. That (necessary) level of violence doesn’t get the mainstream treatment.
I'm not sure about McCarthy adaptations in general. I haven't read No Country yet, so I don't really know how the film compares - the film was good, but McCarthy's prose and symbolism is so integral to the books and that just can't come across in a movie; after reading half a dozen of his books, I suspect the book was a very different feel from the movie. Similarly, The Road was an okay film but just didn't feel anything like the book did. All the Pretty Horses has terrible reviews and I loved the book so I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch it. Blood Meridian is another one. The violence is the point, but not just the blunt image of what happened - the floral and expansive descriptions of every last nuance of the environment are so integral to the experience. If some magnificent bastard of a director did do justice to the story and it got released, I think it would be sensory overload to watch. Not just in the, "extreme violence has a limited market" way, but even for people willing and braced for the violence - I just don't know that you can convey it without shutting down a lot of your audience. It's hard enough to read.
It'd have to be Quentin Tarantino, and I don't think he'd put his ego aside to do it. I don't think any film director truly gets BM well enough to do it justice, they'd have to see past their own interpretations and structures of their chosen medium. It just wouldn't work. Dune wasn't necessarily unfilmable, but to film it, some integral pieces needed to be chopped out. And it becomes unfilmable pretty quick. It's kind of criminal to take that approach to an opus like BM.
I'll spoil it for you: none of those things translate that well to the movies. No Country kind of does, but The Road doesn't.
NO. Tarantino would fuck it up. He'd write in some snappy, fast-paced dialog, use some big name actors, and probably use some obscure songs from the '70s and completely change the tone of the story. He might also try to throw in some kind of social commentary (in my opinion, "Death Proof," "Ingourious Basterds", and "Django " were written as ways to refute his critics who called him misogynist, anti-semitic, and racist, respectively. ). Worst of all: he might make one of his stupid cameos.
I assume at some point, one of the "fun reveals" in the movie is them explaining why it's Wolfs instead of Wolves? Like "I'm a lone wolf!" "Me too!" So, they don't work together - they're both lone wolfs! Or, both their last names are Wolf? Nick Wolf and Jack Wolf - two Wolfs! Looks predictable, but fun. The good news (for me!) is that it's an AppleTV production through Sony Pictures releasing, which is the same as "Fly Me To The Moon" in July. So, multiple successes?
The Bikeriders, from w/d Jeff Nichols. He did Mud with Matthew McConaughey and some other stuff. Tom Hardy finds interesting things. There are a ton of reasons for studios / distributors to drop films, but Disney dropped this, so it missed its original December 2023 release date. I think it's good, because maybe it was too dark for Disney? Who knows. It'll be nice to see Norman Reedus in something besides Walking Dead that he seems made for, and maybe Jodie Comer will take all her clothes off. Plus, you know, motorcycles.
I'm not sure about watching a whole movie where the camera never moves, but this looks interesting. I trust Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks working together on fantastic films in the past (and even Robin Wright on Forrest Gump, obvs) to give it a whirl. I have not read the graphic novel it's based on.
Reeeeeeeeetarded. There is nothing that’s going to be in this quarter-billion dollar film that Spartacus: Blood and Sand didn’t already provide a hundred times over and better. So we have for you in this sequel that nobody asked for (from a movie that has aged terribly) is Eddie Munson from Stranger Things as the emporer of Rome and Denzel as Denzel. Fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off, fuck off. I’ll give it this: at least it doesn’t look as bad as the even MORE new Hellboy reboot. Because nothing on this earth does.