With only a couple months left in the year, John Hillcoat’s stark adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD is easily in the top two or three flicks I want…check that, need to see before the calendar rolls.
And as a temporary thirst quencher, Dimension has just issued an ass-load of new production stills. Not only we do we get some cool looking shots of the dilapidated landscape, we actually catch some shots of an attractive looking Charlize Theron (who, let’s face it, even looks dope when all caked in muck and whatnot).
We also catch Bob Duvall with a bedraggled beard that’s good for a laugh if nothing else. Hell, you need a little levity in these times, and certainly in the times depicted in the film.
For those late to the party, THE ROAD is, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning McCarthy novel – about an unnamed father and son journeying together toward the sea across a post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. The setting is extremely bleak: the sun is obscured by a layer of ash so thick that the pair must breathe through masks, and plants do not grow. The surviving remnants of humanity have been largely reduced to thoughtless violence and cannibalism. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their present location, the father leads them through this desolate landscape towards the sea, sustained by a vague hope of finding other “good people” like them.
Embark on THE ROAD two weeks from Friday (Nov. 25).