{"id":37656,"date":"2024-11-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37656"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T19:01:16","slug":"blood-for-dust-2023-starring-scoot-mcnairy-kit-harington-josh-lucas-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37656","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blood for Dust&#8221; (2023) starring Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington &amp; Josh Lucas \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z111624zview_bloodfordust.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Blood for Dust <\/i>(2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Rod Blackhurst<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>David Ebeltoft,\u00a0<\/strong>story by <strong>Rod Blackhurst, David Ebeltoft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington, Josh Lucas, Nora Zehetner, Stephen Dorff, Algin Mendez <\/strong>and <strong>Ethan Suplee.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Breaking Bad Meets Fargo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cliff (McNary) is\u00a0 paying the price for his past bad choices.\u00a0 He had an affair with his boss&#8217; wife.\u00a0 Cliff also convinced his boss to go in on a scheme to embezzle money from the company.\u00a0 When the theft came to light, Cliff&#8217;s boss took the fall.\u00a0 His boss then committed suicide.\u00a0 Cliff was fired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cliff got work as a traveling salesman, but then his new boss heard the rumors.\u00a0 Cliff was fired again.\u00a0 The word was out. Cliff couldn&#8217;t find a job anywhere.\u00a0 With bills piling up and a son with cancer, Cliff became desperate.\u00a0 So when Ricky (Harington), an old buddy, offered him a job running drugs and guns, Cliff took it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cliff is hoping for one big score and to get out clean.\u00a0 That ain&#8217;t happening.\u00a0 There&#8217;s two double crosses that will make sure of that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tagline is <em>Breaking Bad Meets Fargo<\/em>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a close description.\u00a0 I&#8217;d just add, &#8220;without the humor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>Blood for Dust <\/i>(2023)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z111624zview_bloodfordust2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood for Dust (2023) Director: Rod Blackhurst Screenplay: David Ebeltoft,\u00a0story by Rod Blackhurst, David Ebeltoft Stars: Scoot McNairy, Kit Harington,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37683,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656\/revisions\/37683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}