i couldn't find an existing thread about this one, so here it goes
wikipedia says:
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The Road is scheduled for a limited release on November 11, 2008 and will expand afterward.
Cast
Viggo Mortensen as the Man.[1] Mortensen explained the interaction of the father with his son, "They’re on this difficult journey, and the father is basically learning from the son."[2]
Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Boy.[1]
Charlize Theron as the Wife, who appears in flashback. Theron joined the film because she was a fan of the book and had previously worked with producer Nick Wechsler on the 2000 film The Yards.[3] The character will have a larger role in the film than she did in the book. Hillcoat said of the expanded role, "I think it's fine to depart from the book as long as you maintain the spirit of it."[4]
Michael K. Williams as a thief.[2]
Guy Pearce as a father wandering with his family.[2]
Robert Duvall as an old, dying man
i read the book and thought it was a good one. i don't expect the movie to be as bleak and even terrifying as the novel, but we'll see. viggo should be good on this.
Post subject: Re: The road (film / nov 11, based on mccarthy's novel)
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:21 pm
Fuck Sharks
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Should be interesting.
I have read all of McCarthys books, and The Road is probably my least favorite.
Ben Nichols, of the band Lucero, is a huge CM fan and he is actually the guy who turned me on to him. Ben is doing a solo acoustic EP later this year based on the book Blood Meridian...just thought I would throw that out there, since we were kinda on the subject.
I have read all of McCarthys books, and The Road is probably my least favorite.
the road is unworthy of cormac mccarthy's genius, i probably won't even see this movie
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Post subject: Re: The road (film / nov 11, based on mccarthy's novel)
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:35 am
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I've read "The Road" and now I'm reading "Blood Meridian". I'm liking "Blood" more because of Cormac's knack for throwing in mystical overtones in his writing. "Blood" is a lot more poetic. It wasn't until the last paragraph of "The Road" where I asked myself, where was all of that?
Once there were brook trout in the steams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsionial. On their backs were verminculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
The film currently holds an 89% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews.[15] Esquire's Tom Chiarella screened the film before it was released and called it "a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all. You want them to get there, you want them to get there, you want them to get there — and yet you do not want it, any of it, to end." He also referred to it as "the most important movie of the year".[16] In an early review the Guardian film critic Xan Brooks described The Road as "a haunting, harrowing, powerful film" [17] with Mortensen "perfectly cast" as the Man. Brooks awarded the film four stars out of five.
Post subject: Re: The road (film-nov 25 mccarthy adaptation)
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:01 pm
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rafa_garcia18 wrote:
this is (finally) getting close
plus, it's getting good reviews team
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The film currently holds an 89% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 18 reviews.[15] Esquire's Tom Chiarella screened the film before it was released and called it "a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all. You want them to get there, you want them to get there, you want them to get there — and yet you do not want it, any of it, to end." He also referred to it as "the most important movie of the year".[16] In an early review the Guardian film critic Xan Brooks described The Road as "a haunting, harrowing, powerful film" [17] with Mortensen "perfectly cast" as the Man. Brooks awarded the film four stars out of five.
It bothers me that Roger Ebert didn't wholly like it, and Ebert knows more about McCarthy than any other critic, or about the same.
Post subject: Re: The road (film-nov 25 mccarthy adaptation)
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:29 pm
Johnny Guitar
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bondcfh007 wrote:
from what i've read i don't think it's been watered down much
From the trailer it looks watered down, though. Things look a little too happy. The loneliness and hopelessness of the book just aren't present in the trailer.
I'll still see it though. I'm excited to approach the movie on its own terms.
Post subject: Re: The road (film-nov 25 mccarthy adaptation)
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:37 pm
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
yeah i can see this being made into an effective movie way easier than Blood Meridian
I can see it being possible. You have to smooth out the choppiness of the novel and rid some of the violent scenes. What you have left is a violent western quest with underlying biblical tones.
yeah i can see this being made into an effective movie way easier than Blood Meridian
I can see it being possible. You have to smooth out the choppiness of the novel and rid some of the violent scenes. What you have left is a violent western quest with underlying biblical tones.
i mean yeah it's possible...but it wouldn't have the same tone as the book (due in part to the chopiness you mentioned), while the road movie could, i believe.
Post subject: Re: The road (film-nov 25 mccarthy adaptation)
Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:56 pm
Johnny Guitar
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mray10 wrote:
You virtually couldn't make a film as bleak as the book. It would be unwatchable.
Agreed. My initial impression upon watching the trailer was disappointment, but the movie has to be different in order to be watchable. So like I said, I'm willing to approach the film on its own terms.
Still, it's one of those books that I'd rather not see made into a movie at all. I felt the same way about Blindness. Granted, I never did see the movie, but I heard less-than-spectacular reviews.
You virtually couldn't make a film as bleak as the book. It would be unwatchable.
Agreed. My initial impression upon watching the trailer was disappointment, but the movie has to be different in order to be watchable. So like I said, I'm willing to approach the film on its own terms.
Still, it's one of those books that I'd rather not see made into a movie at all. I felt the same way about Blindness. Granted, I never did see the movie, but I heard less-than-spectacular reviews.
yeah, i don't know why someone would want to undertake turning blindness into a movie. there's no point in even trying.
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