Why Russell Crowe And James Franco's Blood Meridian Has Been Scrapped

James Franco's attempt to adapt Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian has been scuppered, and the reason sounds a little silly. While James Franco, who was due to both co-star and direct in the film, had already assembled an all-star ensemble for the film, which included Russell Crowe, it's now been shelved because they had in fact failed to secure the rights to the novel. An issue that you'd assume would have been sorted at the very beginning of the project. Rather embarrassingly, the revela...