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The Road - New videos from the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron

13 November 2009 3:51 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

We have new film clips as well as interview video with Viggo Mortensen, director John Hillcoat, screenwriter Joe Penhall as well as the producers of the film. The Weinstein Co-distributed thriller/drama opens on November 25th and also stars Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee. There are also several new images. Based on Cormac McCarthy's beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast in the big screen adaptation of The Road, the epic post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee) across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and most life on earth. »

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New Trailer from The Road

1 November 2009 11:50 PM, PST | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »

Dimension Films recently released this new movie trailer from the upcoming Post Apocalyptic thriller “The Road” by director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) and starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall and Brenna Roth. Synopsis: A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization amongst the nomadic cannibal tribes in 2929 Productions’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s thrilling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road. John Hillcoat (The Proposition) directs from a screenplay provided by Joe Penhall. Charlize Theron co-stars in the Dimension Films release. - Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest movie stills [...] »

- Brian Corder

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New “The Road” Trailer

30 October 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

A new trailer for “The Road” directed by John Hillcoat from a script by Joe Penhall has hit the web.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in “The Road”

Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee star in the big-screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Road.”

This is a story of a man (Mortensen) and his son (Smit-McPhee) walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a »

- Fiona

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New Trailer For The Road Keeps Carrying The Fire

30 October 2009 2:03 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Don.t let the relatively unknown director, John Hillcoat (The Proposition), and writer, Joe Penhall (Blue/Orange), scare you away.The Road is shaping up to be nothing less than a thoughtful and invigorating ride. With a solid 88% .Fresh. rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, this film isn.t poised for much disappointment. Adapting Cormac McCarthy.s Pullitzer Prize winning 2006 novel of the same name, the film pits two nameless protagonists, Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), in a dreary, Terminator Salvation-like visually gritty post-apocalyptic landscape. Receiving support from Charlize Therone, Robert Duvall, and Guy Pearce, the cast certainly rounds itself out quite nicely. Wait a minute.let.s rewind: Did I just liken Cormac McCarthy.s The Road to McG.s Terminator Salvation? I am so sorry. Please forgive me. And, while we.re asking for forgiveness, please also forgive the trailer.s utterly ridiculous score that kicks »

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The Earth is badder than you could ever be. Another positive review of The Road

22 October 2009 1:05 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Directors: John Hillcoat

Writers: Joe Penhall & Cormac McCarthy

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Bob Doto

Rating: 8 out of 10

I judge every disaster film by one standard: facial hair. For instance, if during the apocalypse you take every opportunity to nix that end-of-the-world-stubble off your face, because God forbid you, the actor, look bad in a film, than I’m filing you under “Sucker.” Remember that scene in 28 Days Later when the handsome bed-headed lead wakes up to the most horrible of possible life sentences, including a pair of dead parents, and then runs into a bunch of other good looking girls and guys, and the first thing he does is shave off his five o’clock shadow? That was annoying. In The Road, the ultra-human “Papa,” played humbly and heartfully by Viggo Mortensen, doesn’t shave his beard. But he almost does. And for me, therein lies a meta-tension. »

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The Road - New poster for the John Hillcoat film.

22 October 2009 12:07 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Check out a new poster from "The Road," starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee. John Hillcoat directs from the screenplay by Joe Penhall based on Cormac McCarthy's beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Check out a new poster from "The Road," starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee. »

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London Film Festival ‘09: The Road

21 October 2009 5:47 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The Road Directed by John Hillcoat For fans of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road,  the novel's journey from page to screen has been almost as harrowing as the one endured by the book's protagonists. Delayed by over a year due to unspecified wrangling within the temple of Miramax, this grim, biblical parable is finally seeing the light of day at film festivals around the globe. Given the book's critical acclaim, its adoring fan base, and the cinematic scope of the 2007 novel, it came as no surprise when the film was optioned for a film adaptation. The news that it would be helmed by Australian director John Hillcoat was equally well-received, given the quality of his earlier work, in particular his Outback western The Proposition, which demonstrated Hillcoat's aptitude for crafting an uncompromising vision of a disintegrating society buried within a violent landscape; themes echoed in McCarthy's The Road. »

- John

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Final “The Road” Poster

21 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

A final poster for post-armageddon epic “The Road“, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall has been released.

A father (Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food and each other.

Director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) led the production, based on a screenplay by Joe Penhall and Nick Wechsler.

“The Road” opens November 25th. 2009. [source: ComingSoon]

Check out complete gallery of images and posters from “The Road“

The Road Poster »

- Allan Ford

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BFI Lff Review: The Road

16 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

The Road defeated me. It crushed and destroyed me. It broke my heart in the first fifteen minutes and spent the next hour and a half trampling it through the dead and dusty ground. It is a haunting and poetic work, soulful and subtle in its tone and the dark, elegiac cadences. Director John Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall have adapted Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel with a masterful touch and the result is incredibly powerful and moving.

The beginning is the end. With a soulful, almost sleepy, melody the films awakes to The Man and his Wife in their house. She is pregnant as is the mood, with a tangible anxiety. Then outside we hear the plumes of panic in the air, people screaming, unearthly lights and the Earth’s deep, portentous rumble. As in the novel we are never told what happened, director John Hillcoat keeps the fire »

- Jon Lyus

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Mvff '09: The Road

13 October 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Bleak. Engrossing. Heartbreaking. Powerful. The Road is an unrelenting look at the end of the world, using it to discuss the best and worst of what humans are capable of.

It's tempting to call it depressing on a surface level, but of course, the point is the opposite, highlighting the human spirit and perseverance. It drains you, but leaves hope untouched—it's just hidden beneath one of the saddest parenting stories you'll ever see. A must-see film that's frighteningly reflective.

This is a capsule review from the film festival. We will have a full review when the film opens on November 25.

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Mvff Page

Running time: 112

Country: Us

Category: Us Cinema

Directed by: John Hillcoat

Producers: Nick Wechsler, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz

Screenwriter: Joe Penhall

Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe

Editor: Jon Gregory

Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron

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- Arya Ponto

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The Road (Film Review)

16 September 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

In a word: bleak. Based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the long-awaited film version of The Road (opening November 25 after a year’s delay) follows a father and a son as they journey across the vast, ruined postapocalyptic landscape of the southeastern United States. The exact cataclysm is never mentioned, though McCarthy has said that he had an impact event in mind when he wrote the book. Years of fires have plunged the planet into a nuclear winter. Smoke darkens the sky, the temperature continues to drop and nothing green has survived. Total anarchy and no food have turned most of the survivors into cannibals.

Unlike the dark-futuristic action films we’re used to, The Road is a stripped-to-the-bone fable of morality and survival. Viggo Mortensen is The Man—bearded and bedraggled in a dirty down jacket and cardboard shoes. His dreams are heartbreaking flashbacks he can’t seem to shake. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Linda Marotta)

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Tiff 09: We got what you've all been waiting for.. Review of The Road

12 September 2009 8:52 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Directors: John Hillcoat

Writers: Joe Penhall & Cormac McCarthy

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Rick McGrath

Rating: 10 out of 10

This is only the second time I’ve given a score of 10 for a film, and this one receives this honor almost solely on the fact it’s taken me five jangly hours to get over just how stupendously brutal this hyper-realistic film is, and how deeply we’ve all misjudged the apparent strength of society and culture.

Based on the highly-acclaimed 2007 Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, The Road is a sort of philosophic horror film with a slightly optimistic ending. The topic under discussion ultimately may be about the survival of humans in general, but it certainly is about the survival of any kind of humanity in a world where force and cunning and paranoia rule. This multi-level story gives us two things to think about: the »

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Telluride 2009: The Road

10 September 2009 5:59 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Dimension Films, The Weinstein Company, and 2929 Productions present The Road, a film by John Hillcoat. Based upon the acclaimed novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy and adapted by Joe Penhall, The Road stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee with notable names in supporting performances given by Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, and Charlize Theron. This picture was filmed by Javier Aguirresarobe. The Road runs 119 minutes and has been rated "R" by the MPAA. A father and his son travel south during the onset of the Apocalyptic Winter. Tied together by love like a nearly unbreakable rope and the commitment to remain "good guys" and to "carry the flame" of humanity, they face danger and fight to survive with each new approaching moment. The man and boy love each other as would be expected by father and son. It is a strong bond that can only be broken by death. »

- Tom

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The Road Release Delayed Six Weeks

9 September 2009 2:14 PM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Variety reports that Dimension Films has pushed back the release date for The Road to November 25. The movie, which stars Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron, was originally scheduled for an October 16 release.

Dimension head Bob Weinstein said the date was moved back in order to position it for Golden Globe contention, dispelling the notion that the studio pushed back the release due to worries about how the audience would receive it.

We've been getting great audience reaction at Venice and Telluride.... We feel that this is a commercial film that's worthy of a wide release. The Road tells the story of a father (Mortenson) and his son wandering south across a post-apocalyptic America, largely devoid of plant and animal life, where many people have turned to cannibalism. Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce also star.

The script from Joe Penhall is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, who »

- Rich Z Zwelling

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Yes! John Hillcoat Returns to the Literary World of Nick Cave

8 September 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Now that The Road is making its way to audiences -- with a solid review from our Eugene Novikov -- word of future features is starting to pour in, and man, the news is sweet. Variety starts off their post-Road piece with the news that screenwriter Joe Penhall is gearing up to remake the Gallic heist film La Bonne Annee, and wants Daniel Craig to star in it. But the better news follows that. While Road director John Hillcoat always works with Nick Cave (who scored the Viggo Mortensen-starring drama), he is now gearing up for another Cave-penned piece.

This is a fresh breath of cinematic air to anyone who has seen The Proposition -- the film Cave penned in less than a month, and one that single-handedly made me rethink my distaste of westerns. Unfortunately, this is a mixed blessing: The gig in question will be an adaptation »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Daniel Craig Ready For A Tux And For Cannes

8 September 2009 7:50 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

With his non-Bond projects, Daniel Craig seems to have taken care to distance himself from the debonair spy, playing an ass-kicking Polish Jew in Defiance, or a completely blank character in the completely blank movie Invasion. But when people are clamoring to see you wear a tuxedo in foreign locations, apparently you can't resist for long. Variety reports that Craig is in talks to star in La Bonne Annee, a remake of the 1973 French heist film in which a jewel thief gets out of prison and returns to Cannes for another score. No promises that he'll definitely be wearing a tuxedo in the movie, but after To Catch A Thief, it's pretty impossible to imagine a jewel thief on the French shore who isn't rocking a Cary Grant-style suit. The movie's writer may turn out to be Joe Penhall, whose adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is finally »

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Hillcoat and Penhall Announce Projects

8 September 2009 12:19 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Fresh from The Road's glowing reception at Telluride, there was more good news for director John Hillcoat and his post-apocalyptic screenwriter Joe Penhall, who have both confirmed enough new projects to form a very long pipeline indeed.Variety reports that Hillcoat is in talks to direct an adaptation of Nick Cave's novel The Death Of Bunny Munro, about a travelling salesman in search of a soul. Like The Road, it'll be a roadtrip but, if it mirrors the book, one that swaps the bleached landscapes of America for the south coast of England. With its hearty dose of black humour, it's an intriguing departure for Hillcoat who's been tackling fairly dark material lately. Like the end of mankind. Hillcoat has, of course, worked with Cave before. The two Australians collaborated closely on The Proposition, which was written and scored by Cave, and the Hillcoat directed Bad Seeds film Babe, »

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The Road Director John Hillcoat Eyes Daniel Craig, Nick Cave for Future Projects

7 September 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Now that The Road is finally about to get a release, director John Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall are moving on to their next projects. Variety reports that Penhall is potentially writing a remake of the 1973 French heist/romance picture La bonne année, about a thief planning to rob a Cannes jewelers after his release from prison, for star Daniel Craig. We can never have too many heist pictures, even remakes, so I'm all for it. Meanwhile, Hillcoat has a couple of interesting things on the burner, too. Variety also says Hillcoat is eyeing Craig for a film, though there are no specifics. Many sites seem to be reading the trade report as saying that Hillcoat would direct La bonne année, and while that may end up being the case, that's not how the article reads. Instead, it appears that there are both a Penhall / Craig project and a Hillcoat »

- Russ Fischer

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Telluride 2009 Review: John Hillcoat's The Road

7 September 2009 12:37 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Beautifully bleak. That's the best way to describe John Hillcoat's The Road, which I saw yesterday evening in Telluride. Although it's a rather depressing story overall, it's told with such an incredible amount of vigor and passion, that it's actually possible to enjoy. Especially because director John Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall made sure to keep the integrity of Cormac McCarthy's novel intact and stay as true to his words as possible. It seems like a near impossible book to adapt, but they did the absolute best job they could. For as bleak as it was, I was never bored, and it was never bland at all, which is quite an accomplishment. Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where every tree is burnt out or dead, nothing but greyness remains, and the sun never shines, The Road is about a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee). It's »

- Alex Billington

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Team Behind The Road Paves The Way for Future Projects

7 September 2009 12:30 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Director John Hillcoat (right above), who also directed The Proposition, and screenwriter Joe Penhall (left above) recently showcased their bleak vision of the post-apocalyptic future in their adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling novel The Road which had a screening at the Telluride Film Festival (read Alex's review). But the future for Hillcoat and Penhall looks to be ripe with opportunity, which is great news for both.  One new project has Penhall in talks with Daniel Craig to star in a remake of the 1973 Gaelic heist film La Bonne Annee, which follows a recently released prisoner's plan to rob jewelers in Cannes. Penhall and Craig have previously worked together on the 2000 film Some Voices and Enduring Love in 2004, however, it might be a little while before this team actually gets together again. Hillcoat is also in talks with Craig for another unnamed project in addition to adapting the novel ... »

- Ethan Anderton

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