Who will play the judge in the Blood Meridian film?
 

Anyone who cares probably knows Todd Field, director of "In the Bedroom" and "Little Children", will be adapting McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" into film.

I am psyched about this, because it's one of my favorite books and will make for one of the bloodiest and most violent films ever created.

But, who the fuck will play the Judge? The guy is supposed to be over 7 feet tall and massive, are there any guys that can act that could fit that profile? I don't know. I guess you could just make him look big and scary on film, but it still has to be someone ready to portray one of the 5 to 10 most evil charachters in all of literature. Daniel Day Lewis could pull it off I guess, but they'd have to do a helluva make-up job.

Anybody have any ideas of who would work?

For the other charachters, I think Joel Glanton could be well-portrayed by Viggo Mortensen or once again, Daniel Day Lewis.

The Kid has gotta be someone young and talented, I'd saw Emile Hirsch would work, as it'd be hard to find a 14 year old kid who can play a role like that.

Benjamin Tobin could be played by John Turturro, I think that'd be absolutely awesome.

oh and Ray Winstone as the captain would be rad.

still waiting for my friend to sned me his copy of the book.

my library doesn't carry it... [is it that violent?]

I think Blood Meridian could make an excellent film but I'm not holding out too high hopes. I have reservations.
I saw the trailer for The Road and it seemed a bit Hollywood.

I got it from my library (they transferred it actually from a high school in the area for me).
But yes, it is exceptionally violent and, moreover, there isn't really any sense of redemption or good vs evil, just malingering evil and gratuitous and casual cruelty. It is a very bleak book but there is something mesmeric and beautiful about the grandeur of the language which depicts this absolute horror.

I kind of wish they weren't making a movie. There's no way to make it and maintain the spirit of the book. They'll have to tone it down. Or rather, they just will tone it down.

That said, Ving Rhames in whiteface can be the Judge.

supposedly the trailer is nothing like the actual film. some jewish big-wig producer made them make the trailer look like that.

have faith in the director, he did great with 'the proposition' .

and ps rikang, todd field is another good director. i'm pretty interested to see what he does with meridian [even if i have yet to read it].

Some books just shouldn't be movies. This is probably one of them.

I actually think it could make a good film in the right hands. I just remain pessimistic.

Don't forget Tom Cruise was cast as "Lestat" in Interview with the Vampire.

tom cruise was a good lestat i thought.

i just hope they make the judge very creepy and scary, it'll be hard to get someone who can play a role as vicious and cruel as that.

so what do you guys think the judge is? he sure as hell isnt human, and ive heard people refer to him as the devil, the embodiment of war itself, and harold bloom says he is a "gnostic archon". it probably doesnt matter, hes just pure evil.

and i think the road will be great, viggo is perfect for that part, he has that flawed heroic quality.

I do not know what this thread is about.

will look into Blood Meridian.

one of the best novels written the second half of the 20th century

This. It's a really excellent book.

I actually don't see the Judge as evil. Just as inhuman.

you don't think slaughtering men women and children is evil? you dont think raping kids is evil? hes definitely inhuman, but hes like the embodiment of evil. harold bloom compared him to iago, which makes sense as they both seem to be more of ideas than human characters.

Now i'm interested in this book.