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."

Bump.
Just finished this by audiobook. It was certainly interesting, the nature of my listening (work commute) may have made me miss some things but I really enjoyed it. Watching a Yale lecture on YouTube as I speak to maybe explain some things.
There's no way they can make this a movie. The language, violence and mythical aspects of The Judge just makes me think it won't happen. But I will be playing fiddle at the dance if they can actually pull it off