Plot Summary: 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" – the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world.

Release Date: November 25, 2009

MPAA Rating: R (for some violence, disturbing images and language)
Genre: Thriller

Studio: The Weinstein Company

Director: John Hillcoat

Screenwriter: Joe Penhall, Nick Wechsler

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

Official Website: TheRoad-movie.com

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This looks good. YahooMovies! just debuted the trailer so go check it out.

[color=#666666]This message was edited by The Living Angelus on Nov 04 2009.

Why does every single good book have to be turned into a movie? I mean, this will probably be good, but Hollywood just has to go and touch everything. I wish a book could just be a book for once.

quote Dudeguy

Why does every single good book have to be turned into a movie? I mean, this will probably be good, but Hollywood just has to go and touch everything. I wish a book could just be a book for once.

Isn't it obvious? Money.

Not only money, but some of the best movies ever made are adapted. Seven of the last ten Best Picture winners weren't original screenplays.

This movie is going to *bleep*ing rock. They've already stated that lots of the marketing around this film isn't going to be a completely accurate representation, which is understandable. They're going to want to make money on this, especially during a recession. Even still, all the early buzz and reviews have been absolute gold. And the director is perfect for this movie after seeing what he did with The Proposition. And Viggo is perfect too.

Footage looks great, though I thought the trailer sucked. I still think it's stupid that they hire so many well known actors (besides Viggo) for all the other very minor roles, especially if they'll be anything like their characters in the novel.

Also, did I hear a T-Fighter in there...?

The trailer reminded me of I am Legend

Non the less looks good

Well I finished the book last night and my God it blew me away.

I don't think the trailer is that misleading from the book, maybe emphasising the "chase" a bit more, but there is that overtone of absolute terror of being caught in the book, at least in my opinion.

Only thing I didn't like about the trailer was the kind of "explanation" of what happened, I loved the fact it was never explained in the book, all we got was a brief description of the night the clocks stopped working. Ok severe climate change was probably the only thing that would cause such a drastic change but I liked the fact we were never told. I guess though for Hollywood things have to be spelled out at times.

I just watched the trailer and I have some thoughts.
I reckon it'll either end up being a good film, and not much like the book, or a shit film, and it'll be a lot like the book. Not that I thought the book was bad, it's amazing, it just wouldn't really work as a film so much. It relies a lot on your imagination, the unknowns and is generally slow moving, which never (with exceptions of course) makes for a good film.

However it works out though, I hope it stays true to the book in the case of explicit material. Some of the imagery is very shocking, and that was a vital part of the book.

I'm really looking forward to this. I got to study the book for my degree last year, and by the time I had finished reading it I had already placed it as one of my favourite books of all-time. The tone is so brutal, so unforgiving, but at the same time the bond between the father and son is always a ray of light.

quote X_MANBEARPIG_X

I just watched the trailer and I have some thoughts.
I reckon it'll either end up being a good film, and not much like the book, or a shit film, and it'll be a lot like the book. Not that I thought the book was bad, it's amazing, it just wouldn't really work as a film so much. It relies a lot on your imagination, the unknowns and is generally slow moving, which never (with exceptions of course) makes for a good film.

However it works out though, I hope it stays true to the book in the case of explicit material. Some of the imagery is very shocking, and that was a vital part of the book.

Surely then this film has an equal chance as any to be one of those exceptions?

^ True that Vector, but the trailer gave me the impression of it being more face paced. I do want this to work though, I loved the book, I'm just a cynic!

I've heard that they specifically stated that this film is going to be marketed in a somewhat different way than how the film actually is, so that should help ease your mind. There is the chance that it sucks, but I really feel like this movie is going to be incredible.