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Nicolas Winding Refn's BLOOD MERIDIAN


I think Refn is the perfect candidate to tackle Blood Meridian. I've put together a cast that I think would be perfect for it.

Tye Sheridan ... The Kid
Mads Mikkelsen ... Judge Holden
Jeff Goldblum ... Louis Toadvine
Willem Dafoe ... Captain White
Ryan Gosling ... John Joel Glanton
Bryan Cranston ... Benjamin Tobin
James Franco ... David Brown


this would be my main casting. I included Franco because he was originally involved in the film. also included a few actors Refn has worked with already and two I would like to see him work with (Dafoe and Goldblum).

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I've long proposed Refn to be the best man for the job (including on this forum).

Here's the cast I'd like to see:

Tye Sheridan as the Kid. He's got gravitas, and a natural effortless that made him able to hold his own on the screen alongside one of cinema's all-time greats. He'd be able to play a silent witness to the atrocities the Glanton Gang commits.

Val Kilmer as Judge Holden. He's got the girth and the baby face, but more than that, he's got the charisma and I am convinced that this could be the comeback role of the century. Imagine his judge with the magnetism of Doc Holliday.

Josh Brolin as John Joel Glanton. Come on. There's no other choice.

Ben Foster as David Brown. His trademark intensity would be perfect.

Garret Dillahunt as Toadvine. It ain't a McCarthy adaptation without ol' Garret.

Brad Dourif as Tobin, the ex-priest. Imagine the intensity of his Wise Blood character with the gravitas of his Deadwood performance.

Ted Levine as Captain White. Blustering blowhard that would be perfect for the part.

Michael K. Williams as "Black" John Jackson. He looks perfect for the merciless world of McCarthy's west.

Michael Rooker as Cloyce Bell, the brother of the "fool."

Michael Biehn as the Kid's father. A one-scene wonder at the beginning to set the film in motion.

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I'd loooove to see him tackle Blood Meridian. I'll have to re read it cause I dont know who I'd cast. But Gosling and Mads would be dope.

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