Filed under: Book to Movie, Charlize Theron, Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Viggo Mortensen, movies
I just read this and it gets me pretty excited. Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen are confirmed to star in The Road, the post-apocalyptic drama based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name. Viggo was talking publically about being interested in making the movie but Variety confirms that the Lord of the Rings ranger is now in. Theron will play Mortensen’s wife in the movie and appear in flashbacks since the movie is set in the aftermath of the end of the world. Viggo and his son (yet to be cast) are the picture’s two main characters, two survivors of the unspecified global calamity which has left the survivors desperate for food…any food. The movie will be directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition). 
Theron is a fan of the book and has worked before on The Yards with producer Nick Wechsler. Filming is slated to commence next month.
I am a big fan of this book (Favorite of the year) however if it succeeds and stays true to the book it’ll be a very bleak movie and if it’s change with a more positive message then I think it will loose a lot of its’ tone that really made the book.
I’m real nervous about this one.
Over at www.rogerebert.com :
Mr. Ebert presents his 10 best films of 2007.
And while sometimes I don’t see eye to eye with his taste. Mr. Ebert has impressed me this year with a pretty good list that inspires me to see several films that I missed.
Here is the list with exposition
- “Juno”(One of my top 10)
- “No Country For Old Men”(My #1)
- “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
- “Atonement”
- “The Kite Runner”
- “Away From Her”:
- “Across the Universe”:
- “La Vie en Rose”
- “The Great Debaters”
- “Into the Wild”
Special Jury Prize:
“Once”
-DH
