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
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Somebody knows the status of the film adaptation of the novel from the spanish author Arturo Perez Reverte in wich Mortensen is playing the main character? I think is a production from Spain and the character is called “Captain Alatriste” or something like that. Any information will be apreciated. Mortensen is a great actor.
hey, i saw ‘Captain Alatriste’ in July last year back home in Luxembourg. So it have to be out for almost a year now! Maybe you will be able to get it on DVD somewhere…
Really? … I haven’t seen it in any of the video stores where I live … weird.
The Road is a brillant book. It is totally a piece for two roles, father and son (and road). I have no idea, whatsoever, which role Guy Pearce is supposed to play. If they keep with the concept of the novel and don’t s**t it up like Cold Mountain, his role couldn’t be more than 5 minutes! Viggo is a superb casting choice here.
Damn! Now I’ll have scenes from that book haunting me the rest of the day. Intense reading!
Please read “The Road”. It’s one of the best books in the last ten or fifteen years. It’s a masterpiece. I hope that the film adaptation can rise to the greatness of the novel.