Multiple Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan (“Gladiator”, “Skyfall,” “The Last Samurai”) has been set to pen the long-gestating film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian” at New Regency. John Hillcoat (“The Proposition,” “Lawless”), who previously helmed a McCarthy adaptation with “The Road,” will direct and produce along with Keith Redmon. Logan says in a statement: “Blood Meridian has been one of my favorite novels since first reading it in 1985.