Hollywood Keeps Trying (and Failing) to Adapt This "Unfilmable" Novel

Blood Meridian is one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed novels. Like everything Cormac McCarthy published before his commercial breakthrough in the 1990s, it failed to leave much of an impact during its initial release, but it didn’t take long to be recognized as a significant work of western literature. Today it is unanimously considered McCarthy’s magnum opus, and a contender for the illustrious title of Great American Novel – a stunning turnaround for someone who’d spent most of their adult life in total poverty.