The Road

[Dark Donnie]

Weinsteins Unveil Road Release Rollout
Source:The Weinstein Company June 12, 2008


The Weinstein Company announced today its release plans for John Hillcoat's The Road, an adaptation of the post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy starring Viggo Mortensen and Guy Pearce. Expect a November 14th bow in New York and Los Angeles followed by a limited release on November 21st before it opens wide on the 26th (you follow all of that?) - obviously an effort to generate early buzz. Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Kodi Smit-McPhee also star in this tale of a man and his son who trek across treacherous terrain after a nuclear explosion.

Also the article nite-owl posted is quite good....love the talk about Michael K. WIlliams(The Wire)

 

[nite-owl]

The Wires awesome. I got season 2 & 3 for my birthday.

 

[Dark Donnie]

The Wires awesome. I got season 2 & 3 for my birthday.

Yeah probably my favorite show ever on HBO and that's saying alot considering the shows they have/had.

 

[nite-owl]

I've finished college so I'am just going to watch The Wire all day Tuesday & Wednesday.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Season 3 is my favorite personally.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=47736

 

[블라스]

Must read this book!

 

[Hunter Rider]

More pics from USA Today including a larger version of the previously posted one.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Damn look at Omar

 

[Rando Aces]

the book was incredibly moving

 

[Dark Victory]

Movie looks great. I'm going to go get the book tomorrow

 

[Hobgoblin]

I was interested in the book, but the one word conversations got on my nerves.

 

[Dark Donnie]

 

[Gotham]

Incredibly excited to see a trailer. I've heard the novel is fantastic.

 

[Dark Donnie]

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20219070_20219072_20218938,00.html

The Road

By Gregory Kirschling

Before its debut in bookstores in 2006, Cormac McCarthy's postapocalyptic novel

The Road was passed around Hollywood in galley form like any high-profile new work. One guy who got his hands on a copy was Hillcoat, an Australian director whose only major movie, 2005's The Proposition, was primarily influenced by McCarthy's 1985 Western novel Blood Meridian. "Right away, The Road was on my list of my top three favorite books," says Hillcoat. "It probably had the most impact of any novel on me." He knew that getting the film rights might be tough, and sure enough, "some studios were after it as well," he says. "But they decided it was too dark."

It was the opening that Hillcoat and his producers needed. By striking first and fast, a director with only one American release to his name grabbed control of a book that would go on to huge critical and commercial success, winning the Pulitzer Prize and the sales-boosting endorsement of Oprah's Book Club last year. In the film, Mortensen stars as an exhausted but loving father guiding his son (Smit-McPhee) across a desolate America following an unspecified cataclysm.

Of course, even fans of the novel have to wonder if the studios that passed on the project weren't onto something: Is the story too grim to work on screen? Mortensen insists that, above all, The Road remains a touching father-son story. "You look at it on the page, and it's a leap of faith as a film," he says. "Because it's just the man and the boy, along a pretty bleak landscape, it could be a recipe for disaster — it could be, if not dull, then just a relentless downer of a movie. But actually, it's rich emotionally, and the story is ultimately hopeful."
OUR TWO CENTS Even if the movie's only half as good as the novel, that might be good enough for an Oscar nod...or more.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Ive got a strong feeling that this will really deliver.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Any word on when a trailer will be out?

 

[블라스]

I should probably get this book.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Any word on when a trailer will be out?

Within a month I would guess.

 

[Laderlappen]

Oscar nominations for Viggo & the boy? Just a feeling I have.

 

[nite-owl]

Script review.

http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2008/08/25/Quiet-Earth-World-Exclusive-THE-ROAD-script-review

 

[nite-owl]

Set pics of the cannibals.

http://www.jeremyambler.com/theroad.html

 

[Galactus]

The Road to Move to 2009?
Source: The Hollywood Reporter October 16, 2008


The Hollywood Reporter says that the Viggo Mortensen dark thriller , which The Weinstein Company had originally set for a Nov. 14 limited and Nov. 26 wide release, has now quietly been shifted until at least December -- and might be moved out of 2008 altogether.

The executives are scheduled to meet with "Road's" producers Thursday to discuss whether the movie will be released this year.

2929 Entertainment and Nick Wechsler Productions are producing the film, based on Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tale about a man and his son wandering a bleak landscape.

John Hillcoat's movie, shot this year mainly in Pennsylvania, is in post-production and decidedly not done, those familiar with the project said.

 

[Dark Victory]

Just finished the book. Pretty ****** up but still great. Heard the guy who directed The Proposition(the only good western in the last 10 years...if you count the outback of Australia) is directing this too, so I'm sure this is going to be VERY intense at the least.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I thought The Proposition was mediocre except the cinematography, but I'm interested in seeing what he's done with this.