Originally scheduled to be released in fall of 2008, "The Road" is to be screened for the first time at the upcoming Venice Film Festival. The film is based on Pulitzer prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s ("No Country for Old Men", "All the Pretty Horses") novel. The book was a haunting and desperate tale of a father and son attempting to survive in a burned out post-apocalyptic world while trying to make their way across country to the sea.
The film stars the incredibly talented Viggo Mortensen as the father and (first time big screen actor from Australia, 13 year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee). Having read the book it is hard to imagine the film will be anything but thought provoking, scary, and uber depressing. It is set for wide release in the US on October 16th. 2009.
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