THE ROAD - my 2nd favorite book is now a film!

[Twilight]

No you're not seeing things. I hold in my hands the entire 123 page screenplay for Cormac McCarthy's The Road, written for the screen by Joe Penhall. Oddly, there is no cover page to help indicate which draft I might be looking at but each page is watermarked 9/11/07 (eerie eh?) and there is no question that this is a complete and fully realized work. To be blunt, the script is a complete stunner. It is a devastating masterwork which, I'm glad to report, has been written with absolute devotion to the original novel. If this is the script that gets filmed, then The Road will not only be the most important post-apocalyptic film ever made but it will profoundly affect the cinema going world. But I can't help but wonder; is the world ready for a film this dark?

Just posting this to give you all a heads up on THE ROAD, starring Viggo Mortensen, that will be released on 28th Nov. (in the US at least).


The film is adapted (beautifully, according to a script review) from one of my absolute favorite novels of all time. (Cormac McCarthy's book by the same name - the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner).


The story? A father and son head south - to find warmth - in a post-apocalyptic united states a decade after the earth has suffered an unnamed apocalypse that burned everything in the world and covered everything in Ash.



This is just a heads up. No trailer has been released yet.

And this is a recommendation: if you haven't read The Road, I highly recommend you do. It's absolutely the most devastatingly beautiful novel I've ever read, EVER. No joke, no hyperbole. Please read the book.


Script review:

http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=22714

Photos, cast, etc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

NYTimes article on the making of the film:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/movies/27road.html


Reviews of the book:

http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/mccarthycormac/road

 

[S. Gomez]

It's weird how the film is coming out in November but there's no trailer yet. Thanks for the heads up, though. I'll probably check out the book before the movie.