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		<title>Matt&#8217;s just not feeling it for THE ROAD trailer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 23:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Tom Chiarella at Esquire Magazine, presumably the only guy on the planet to have seen the first adapted Cormac McCarthy novel since No Country For Old Men classified the 16.10.09 released post-apocalyptic thriller The Road as being "the most important movie of the year". 



That kind of studio exec's marketing dream is too good for The Weinsteins NOT to capitalise on and unsurprisingly, just a few days later we have a full length trailer online for our viewing pleasure.

Now, before you go any further, any trailer with the unfortunate tag of "most important movie of the year" is going to fail at the first huddle, it will never live up. No trailer is ever as good as the one for The Phantom Menace (similarly, a trailer whose final movie would never live up to those few minutes of footage). 

Just bare that in mind.


I'm positive this movie will be better than it looks come October, I'm certain it's going to be killer. Not a run of the mill action thriller as advertised. The lack of heart, the lack of rhythm, the lack of a reason to care is partly because of a misconceived notion that putting in as many glorious apocalyptic shots of a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Esquire call THE ROAD &#8220;the most important movie of the year&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 08:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A provocative headline from Esquire, especially considering John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road when finally released in October will have been delayed for 11 months. Usually that's a sign of a movie in trouble, but I suppose recently history suggests that might not be the case and The Weinsteins have only ever claimed that The Road's delay is because the special effects weren't quite up to the standard they were aiming for. 



Andrew Dominik's true American classic The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford was delayed for equal length, and even worse, tampered with in the editing room but what eventually came out was one of the true 21st century greats. Though, it didn't make a dime of course. 

Writes Tom Chiarella, one of the few lucky guys that has actually seen the first McCarthy adapted novel for screen since the 2007 Best Picture Academy Award winning No Country For Old Men...
Everything about the film seems disconnected in this way — shocky and post-traumatic. This is what happens: A father and a son walk from point A to point B through a desolate landscape. Cities are deserted. People-zombies, some of them hungry for human flesh, stare out ...]]></description>
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		<title>THE ROAD still not pathed&#8230; delayed till next year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hollywood Reporter say execs from Dimension and The Weinsteins are meeting today to discuss whether the Viggo Mortensen starring thriller THE ROAD, based on Cormac McCarthy's apocalyptic novel is going to make a release this year.

Recently the film was quietly pushed back till December from it's mid-November release to allow director John Hillcoat to finish his movie but according to the trades, a early bow in 2009 seems likely.



One thing that has been mentioned is that an expected contender for Viggo as Best Actor nom, may diminish the longer the movie is delayed. If it opens a few months in 2009, it may end up in the forgotten realm of the release calendar and won't make this year or next year's awards.

We still await the trailer for this much anticipated movie. ]]></description>
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		<title>No CGI in THE ROAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those annoyed by Francis Lawrences' adaptation of I Am Legend and it's heavy use of CGI for a tale that could have been told in a claustrophobically small manner, will be happy to hear that director John Hillcoat has made it a point to have no CGI in his end of the world tale adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer prize winning novel The Road.


Speaking to the USA Today, Hillcoat says only the fictional story of a father and son who travel across a barren and apocalyptic countryside after a mystery catastrophe is made up, the scenery and settings are very real. They shot the film in Pittsburgh...
"It's a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing," Hillcoat says. "But in winter, it can be very bleak. There are city blocks that are abandoned. The woods can be brutal. We didn't want to go the CGI world."

"We wanted the heightened reality in the book."
Opening in the U.S. on November 14th (January in the U.K), Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play the father and son, in a small role Charlize Theron plays Mortensen's wife and finally Robert Duvall makes up the core cast.

I really did enjoy last year's I Am Legend but ...]]></description>
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		<title>First look: Viggo Mortensen in Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s THE ROAD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 10:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can't believe this film isn't getting more buzz but here's our first look at John Hillcoat's (The Proposition) next movie The Road, an adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel (he's the guy who wrote No Country For Old Men) and stars Viggo Mortensen, Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron.

Mortensen and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) most survive whilst travelling through a post-apoclayptic wasteland...

The book is said to be incredible and with a cast of some of Hollywood's finest "actors" and not neccesarily "stars", this one is very high on my radar.

Look for it at the end of November.

source - rope of silicon ]]></description>
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		<title>Updates on THE ROAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've heard for months now that Guy Pearce would star in THE ROAD, the next adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel after the awesome NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

Viggo Mortensen (early reports said that Pearce had replaced Viggo, but that was later squashed) and Charlize Theron star are 100% locked for the picture but we are still awaiting some kind of firm confirmation on Pearce's involvement.

A firm "no comment" was the response that Bloody Disgusting got from Dimension Films when they attempted to get a confirmation on Pearce and also veteran Robert Duvall who their official source claims will have a role in the movie.

All this comes on the day that The Hollywood Reportersay that 11 year old Kodi Smit-McPhee will play Mortensen's son in the tale of a months-long journey across a barren U.S. landscape after a cataclysmic event destroyed most of life on Earth.

If it's any indication of Pearce and Duvall's likely involvment in the picture, the source at BD also told them McPhee would be in the picture before the trade announcement broke this morning.

THE ROAD will begin filming later this month under the lens of John Hillcoat, the director of THE PROPOSITION. ]]></description>
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		<title>Charlize Theron hitches a ride on THE ROAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I'm confused.

Variety are reporting that Charlize Theron has signed up for a role in John Hillcoat's adaptation of the brilliant Cormac McCarthy novel THE ROAD.

Ok that's cool. We like Charlize around here but the strange thing is the trades are still reporting that Viggo Mortensen is in the film... which he was right up until October when it was reported that Guy Pearce had secured the lead role when the LORD OF THE RINGS actor had turned them down.

But hey, I'm happy that Viggo is back. He's an acting Picasso, a true artist and I will flock to see anything he is in.

Theron's small role will be that of wife to Mortensen and will only be seen in flashbacks (it's a post-apocalyptic world, so think I AM LEGEND) and the actress says she isn't doing it for the part per-say, but because she is a massive fan of the book.

Said book, written by NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN author Cormac McCarthy depicts a guy who takes the nightmare road trip to get his son to safety whilst feeding off cannibals after a nuclear explosion. John Hillcoat is helming (he did the wonderful Western THE PROPOSITION) and is working from ...]]></description>
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		<title>Guy Pearce joins THE ROAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guy Pearce will re-team with The Proposition director John Hillcoat for The Road, the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's popular novel which Hillcoat first went after Viggo Mortensen to lead.

Pearce will be playing the lead role in the post-apocalyptic movie that see's America in danger from wacko's and cannibals.

I loved The Proposition, especially the way the film was handled by this exciting up and coming director, and Pearce is a fine actor and there's no reason to think their combination won't work out again.

So he may not be as bankable, interesting or as commanding on screen as Viggo... but I like this move.

I really should get around to reading the book. Everyone tells me it's spectacular.

source - shock till you drop ]]></description>
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		<title>Walking The Road with Viggo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Reynolds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly a week ago Matt gave you heads up on The Road, a post-apocalyptic drama based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Now confirmation comes from The Hollywood Reporter that the movie is going ahead under the stewardship of 2929 Productions with Dimension Films picking the movie up for North American distribution.

The trade gives this quick summation of the plot:-
The film, based on McCarthy's 2006 best-seller, centers on a father who walks alone with his son through a ravaged postwar American landscape in search of civilization.
Viggo Mortensen is attached to the film, though currently he doesn't have a deal finalised, while The Proposition's John Hillcoat will handle directing chores. The script comes from acclaimed playwright Joe Penhall.

I read this book right at the start of the year and it completely blew me away - so much so, in fact, that everything I've read since has been mediocre in comparison. The story is such a simple idea but its brilliance lies in McCarthy's genius as a writer. I fear the film will only be a shadow of the book, but the good buzz from No Country For Old Men shows that it is possible to do McCarthy's prose justice on the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Aragon taking up The Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep being recommended Cormac McCarthy's pulitizer prize winning novel The Road. I think three seperate people this year have told me it's one of the best recent books out there. I know Ray over at The Rec Show is a huge fan of the book and he has sent us the heads-up on a really cool story about what's going on with the movie adaptation.

We already know John Hillcoat is directing which is fabulous news. His beautiful style of film-making made The Proposition one of the most visually stunning movies of 2005 and I believe he will be one to watch over the coming years. Today's stories concerns a possible lead star for the movie after an actor spoke to MTV Movies Blog revealing he was close to committing to the project. His name...

Viggo Mortensen. Aka Aragon. Aka Acting God...
“There’s a book called ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy. They’re going to make a movie of that and the people making [it] have expressed interest [in me]. Visually, it’s going to be a very beautiful movie. It’s a very good story...It’s mainly about a father and a boy. It’s a post-apocalyptic scenario, a wasteland that they’re trying to get through ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hillcoat to direct apocalyptic nightmare &#8220;The Road&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian director John Hillcoat is eyeing up American author Cormac McCarthy's new book The Road to direct into a feature film. His last feature was the low budget western The Proposition which garnered attention from critics if nothing else.

More info from Coming Soon...

"The Road," set after a nuclear explosion, is the post-apocalyptic nightmarish road trip of a man who tries to transport his son to safety while fending off starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals.

I like the sound of this flick, I think it's why I like zombie movies so much because they show the absolute nightmare terror of what a post-apocalyptic world looks like.

Expect this feature to be quite low budget which will probably be a blessing to the film, as it can stick to telling a tight and claustrophobic survival story of a father and son without having to worry about great special effects shots to depict what is going on in the rest of the world.

source - variety, coming soon ]]></description>
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