Bone Tomahawk 91% Rotten Tomatoes Proves Its Time To Make Violent Western Into A Movie
Bone Tomahawk is a brooding horror Western that explores a dark story and darker ideas, but the 2015 movie's critical success proves that a novel from the same genre – once considered unfilmable – can and should be adapted. S. Craig Zahler's film, which boasts an all-star cast including Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, and Matthew Fox, is uncompromising in its brutality – oscillating between the deliberate pace of classic Western stories and explosions of horrific violence.
Although multiple Hollywood adaptations have been attempted, there have always been several obstacles for a Blood Meridian movie to overcome. Perhaps the most significant is the story's villain, Judge Holden. A pale, hairless, physically imposing man with a genius-level intellect and sadistic personality, Holden is an embodiment of humanity's potential – both good and bad.
Blood Meridian Clearly Has Potential As A Movie It's Been Discussed For Decades There's no denying that adapting Blood Meridian has been an intoxicating prospect for multiple filmmakers. In the 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones acquired the movie rights, before abandoning the project. Later, Ridley Scott set out to create his own version of the story after finishing Kingdom of Heaven, yet found that"it would be an X-certificate" due to the violence .
Blood Meridian Has Different Challenges To Bone Tomahawk The Difficulties Extend Beyond Violence Close If it were just the levels of violence, the excuses for not adapting Blood Meridian would be more difficult to understand. After all, there have been plenty of extremely violent films that have had success – critically and commercially. What makes Blood Meridian particularly difficult is the scope of its story – narratively and thematically.
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