re: Will Blood Meridian ever be made into a movie? (Update Alert)

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McCarthy makes him almost a mythical or supernatural figure but there was a real Judge Holden in the source material the book is based on.

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He's pretty much described the exact same way there though, this sounds just like Tobin's description of the Judge to the Kid. I've thought about a BM movie for years and casting the Judge seems impossible. IMO it needs to be some unknown actor.

Also, My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue, is back in print for anyone wanting to read it.


"The second in command, now left in charge of the camp, was a man of gigantic size who rejoiced in the name of Holden, called “Judge” Holden of Texas. Who or what he was no one knew but a cooler blooded villain never went unhung; he stood six feet six in his moccasins, had a large fleshy frame, a dull tallow colored face destitute of hair and all expression. But when a quarrel took place and blood shed, his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend. His desires was blood and women, and terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes committed by him when bearing another name, in the Cherokee nation and Texas; and before we left Fronteras a little girl of ten years was found in the chapperal, foully violated and murdered. The mark of a huge hand on her little throat pointed him out as the ravisher as no other man had such a hand, but though all suspected, no one charged him with the crime."