New Regency is slated to adapt Blood Meridian into a feature film. The project will be directed by John Hillcoat and based on the iconic book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy.
Plot details of the film have not been announced yet. However, McCarthy's novel, first published in 1985 as Blood Meridian is set in the American West and follows a fictional Tennessee 14-year-old known as the Kid. Based on semi-historical events, the book tracks the Kid's life as he gets intertwined into the westward American expansion of the mid-1850s, and stumbles onto a gang of rangers on the U.S.-Mexican border that kill and scalp Native Americans.
While casting remains under wraps, Deadline reported that Hillcoat will also produce the film through New Regency, alongside Keith Redmon for the Black Bear Pictures banner. McCarthy will serve as an executive producer alongside his son John Francis McCarthy. This will be Hillcoat's second time directing an adaptation of a McCarthy novel, as he helmed the post-apocalyptic film The Road in 2009.
