Yesterday a lot of people were surprised when word came out that
James Franco is actively pursuing two very lofty directorial ambitions - he wants to write and direct film versions of
William Faulkner's landmark novel
As I Lay Dying, and
Cormac McCarthy's
Blood Meridian.
There was some initial skepticism about half of that report, as producer Scott Rudin wrote to IndieWire to suggest that the
Blood Meridian news was ...