Jones plans violent film of McCarthy book
08/03/2006 - 12:29:30Tommy Lee Jones is hoping to follow up his directorial debut on 'The three burials of Melquidaes Estrada' by turning Cormac McCarthy's ultra-violent 'Blood Meridian' into a new movie.
The actor was hired to write a screenplay based on the book, but the film has since been shelved because movie executives feared it was too violent.
He explains: "Sony Pictures hired me to write a screenplay from the book. I told them it would be an absolutely true adaptation of the book. They said, 'Fine, go ahead.'
"They gave me some money, and within a year I gave them an awfully good screenplay, which they then said was far too violent."
