The Road, the movie adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, will be released November 25, 2010. It has been pushed back several times by more than a year, hopefully due to the movie studio wanting to create something as special as the source material. The movie only cost $30 million to make, a pittance by standards today, but it stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee. Those are some pretty powerful names for so low budget of a movie.
A few days ago, director John Hillcoat and the Wesinstein movie studio decided to release the long-awaited second trailer to The Road!
Here it is:
Again, this movie will be up for Oscars just like the last McCarthy movie adaptation, No Country For Old Men. The subject matter makes it so.
The only question is: Will people go out and watch such a dreary-looking movie over the Thanksgiving weekend?
We’ll see. But I plan to be there!
I have this book waiting for me. Unfortunately, it will be preceded by about four other library books that have suddenly been dumped on my lap. Thanks, library hold system, for putting each of my holds on a long waiting list and then suddenly releasing them to me in a huge flood…