Editing Blood Simple (section)

== Production ==
===Development===
After writing the [[screenplay]], the Coen brothers shot a preemptive dummy [[theatrical trailer]] for ''Blood Simple'', which showed "a man dragging a shovel alongside a car stopped in the middle of the road, back towards another man he was going to kill" and "a shot of backlit gun holes in a wall."<ref name=tcmart>Ferarra, Greg [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/69149/blood-simple#articles-reviews "Blood Simple (1984)" (article)] [[TCM.com]]</ref> The trailer featured actor [[Bruce Campbell]], playing the Julian Marty role, and was shot by recent film school graduate [[Barry Sonnenfeld]].<ref name=hoad>{{Cite web|work=[[The Guardian]]|title=How we made Blood Simple|date=November 6, 2017|last=Hoad|first=Phil|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/06/how-we-made-blood-simple-coen-brothers-barry-sonnenfeld|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201122203504/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/06/how-we-made-blood-simple-coen-brothers-barry-sonnenfeld|archive-date=November 22, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/blood-simple-investor-trailer|title=Watch Bruce Campbell in the Fake Trailer That Started the Coen Brothers' Careers|last=Rich|first=Katey|date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160714153614/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/blood-simple-investor-trailer|archive-date=July 14, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

After completing the trailer, the Coens began exhibiting it with the hope of persuading investors to help fund a full-length feature film.<ref name=hoad/> Daniel Bacaner was one of the first people to invest money in the project. He also became its executive producer and introduced the Coens to other potential backers. The entire process of raising the necessary $1.5 million took a year.{{sfn|Robson|2003|p=}}

===Filming===
''Blood Simple'' was shot in several locations in the towns of [[Austin, Texas|Austin]] and [[Hutto, Texas]], over a period of eight weeks in the fall of 1982. The film spent a year in [[postproduction]] and was completed by 1984.<ref>Marsh, Calum (January 15, 2015) [http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/how-blood-simple-started-30-year-hollywood-firefight "How 'Blood Simple' Stated A 30-Year Hollywood Firefight"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225144044/http://www.maxim.com/entertainment/how-blood-simple-started-30-year-hollywood-firefight |date=2015-12-25 }} ''[[Maxim (magazine)|Maxim]]''</ref>

''Blood Simple'' was Frances McDormand's screen debut.<ref name=tcmart /> All Coen brothers films are co-produced and co-directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, although Ethan was credited as the sole producer and Joel the sole director until 2004. The Coens share editing credit under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2008/01/roderick_jaynes_imaginary_osca.html|title=Roderick Jaynes, Imaginary Oscar Nominee for 'No Country'|first=Jada|last=Yuan|website=Vulture|date=January 22, 2008|access-date=June 22, 2021|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624210155/https://www.vulture.com/2008/01/roderick_jaynes_imaginary_osca.html|url-status=live}}</ref>