The more I see and hear of the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s stunning novel The Road the more I want to skip Summer and to move quickly to November. The lads at BloodyDisgusting have been eating their carrots and spotted an article on the film over at the New York Times with more images. The article speaks about the novel adaptation by Joe Penhall, the difficulty is filming at the breakout of Spring and how 'good' weather hampers production, site locations, and then talks about the bond between the story's two lead actors Kodi Smit-McPhee and Viggo Mortensen.
As is to be expected the images won't give away much. But put this in my must-see movies in the Fall.
Considering how the environment and climate is described in the book, I think these stills make the landscape look way too friendly. Maybe it will look better in motion.
ash covered ground, tons of dead trees
looks about right imo
Looks good. I wonder if the movie adaption will have a lot of voiceover. Since it's from the director of The Proposition, I hope it'll be a very sparse tour through the nightmarish landscapes with minimal dialogue. I'm not sure if that would translate to box office success, but it would certainly be unique.
The NYT article has Hillcoat suggesting that it will have no internal narrative.
Hopefully it doesn't get or need the Blade Runner treatment.