#4. The Road
Director: John Hillcoat
Writer(s): Joe Penhall (Enduring Love)
Producers: Paula Mae Schwartz, Steve Schwartz, Nick Wechsler (We Own the Night)
Distributor: Dimension Films
The Gist: 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. Theron, who will play the wife of Mortensen’s character, and will mostly be seen in flashbacks.
Fact: The film was originally scheduled for a late 2008 release, but was pulled. Perhaps to focus on The Reader campaign?
Why is it on the list?: We aren’t as lucky as Esquire who already got to see the pic and called it the “most important movie of this year”. We’ve waited patiently, had time to read the book and consider the following stats: we are huge fans of The Proposition (2005) and loved the book to film translation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.
Release Date/Status?: Venice and TIFF preems would seem logical, timed perfectly before Dimension’s October 16th release.
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