Last week we brought you the non-news that Todd Field is developing Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. That project may be getting back-burnered, though, as he’s been hired to direct Buried at Paramount Vantage. The film is based on an article by Hillel Levin and James
Keene (which I’m guessing makes it a true story) about a couple [beep! We’ve been informed that the previous synopsis was wrong] who “are forced to cope with the fallout on their relationship after they commit a crime.”
The script is being written by Brad Inglesby, who is like the go-to guy in Hollywood this week – he just signed on to write Sleeper for Sam Raimi.
For people who watch the studios as well as the movies, Buried is the first film for the new regime at Vantage. The dependent studio is now being run by Guy Stodel, one of the producers of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies, and people were wondering what direction Vantage would be going. Buried seems to be splitting the difference between Stodel’s genre background and Vantage’s arty, director-driven mandate. No complaints from this nerd!
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Fidelio.
Wtf are you doing Todd?!! Epic western>shitty story centered around something that Spoorloos has already mastered. Bad form Mr. Field.
This sounds boring and predicatable. I can see why Fields want to do it. I can see what he's thinking. But I say what you're thinking, Mr. Fields, we don't need. Normal Life sorta covered this ground.
That picture of Field up there reminds me of Justin Waddell.
Todd Field is not the right man for Blood Meridian. That book is ultraviolent. I don't think he can pull it off right. I hope they give it to Zach Snyder. Just kidding nerds! I'd like to see Spielberg do it because he pulled off Ryan's action pieces without romanticizing it or making it look too flashy or cartoony. Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living American author.
Blood Meridian would be almost impossible to adapt. Good directors take their jobs seriously and he is obviously still working away at BM, but in the mean time everyone needs live, right? This man has dedicated himself to his art, and any personal decisions he makes concerning his project development deserve the respect of the public.
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