2008 Fall/Holiday Preview: #4. The Road

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The Road John Hillcoat

#4. The Road

Director:
John Hillcoat
Writers: Joe Penhall (Enduring Love)

Producers: Paula Mae Schwartz and Steve Schwartz, Nick Wechsler (Reservation Road)
Distributor: Dimension Films and The Weinstein Company

The Gist: Based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel and adapted by Joe Penhall, this is 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.

Fact: Novel was recently picked as Orpah’s book of the month.

See It: The pics that have surfaced so far, give the kind of bleak, grim and decayed landscape that we are hoping for, and will remind viewers that The Proposition was no fluke.  

Release Date/Status?: November 11th.

 
Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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