Box Office Mojo reports that Dimension’s THE ROAD, starring Viggo Mortensen, Guy Pearce, and Charlize Theron, has just been given a prestigious November 26 release date. That’s Thanksgiving time, folks, where the big boys play.
Now you may recall that the Weinstein boys gambled on THE MIST being a sleeper hit around the same time last year, and that plan backfired – as the movie was just obviously meant for an October release. THE ROAD is a bit different though, in that it has a chance to be a genuine award-season contender: It’s based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from the author of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, boasts an impressive cast, a frightening, all-too-real premise (this COULD be our future one day, after all), and the director of the haunting THE PROPOSITION (if you haven’t seen that violent, vicious western, I urge you to check it out).
Still, it IS about a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated by cannibals – and that’s what we like most about it. Now you know when to expect the bloody thing!