Ridley Scott's movie doubt

20-11-2008 13:30

Sir Ridley Scott is considering dropping a new movie.

The 'Body of Lies' director says he is unsure whether a planned adaptation of 'Blood Meridian', based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, should go ahead because the western is so graphically violent.

I think it's a really tricky one, and maybe it's something that should be left as a novel

He explained to Empire Online: "It's written. I think it's a really tricky one, and maybe it's something that should be left as a novel.

"If you're going to do 'Blood Meridian' you've got to go the whole nine yards into the blood bath, and there's no answer to the blood bath, that's part of the story, just the way it is and the way it was.

"When you start to scalp Mexican wedding parties that'll draw the line. One scalp of coarse black hair is pretty well either Mexican or Indian, and there was no difference to the scalp hunters in Arizona at that time, who didn't draw the line."