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Viggo Mortensen og Charlize Theron spiller hovedrollene i denne drama/thrilleren som er basert på novellen av samme navn av Cormac McCarthy.

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Directed by	John Hillcoat
Produced by	Nick Wechsler Steve Schwartz Paula Mae Schwartz
Written by	Novel: Cormac McCarthy Screenplay: Joe Penhall
Starring	Viggo Mortensen Kodi Smit-McPhee Robert Duvall Guy Pearce Charlize Theron
Music by	Nick Cave Warren Ellis
Cinematography	Javier Aguirresarobe
Editing by	Jon Gregory
Studio	2929 Productions
Distributed by	Dimension Films The Weinstein Company
Release date(s)	November 25, 2009
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[citation needed]

The Road is an upcoming film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. Based on the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the film stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Filming took place in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Oregon. The film is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2009.^[1]

Contents [hide] 1 Premise 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 5 Reception 6 References 7 External links

Premise

The Road follows the premise from the book of the same name. An unnamed father (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) struggle to survive after an unspecified apocalypse and make their way toward the coast for possible food, shelter, safety, or to potentially find other survivors of the cataclysmic events. Along the way, they encounter grave struggles and hardships across the barren landscapes, with scarce shelter and resources available to them, and having to avoid bands of cannibals and other desperate gangs looking to pillage valuables and food. Various flashback sequences occur where the Man remembers events prior to the catastrophe, many involving his deceased wife, who has a much more expanded role in the film than in the original book.

Cast

• Viggo Mortensen as the Man.^[2] Mortensen explained the interaction of the father with his son, “They’re on this difficult journey, and the father is basically learning from the son.”^[3]
• Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Boy.^[2]. At the London Film Festival, Mortensen explained that Smit-McPhee was one of four finalists for the part, all of whom then read with him. Smit-McPhee was unanimously chosen, in particular because he seemed youthful, innocent and yet wise beyond his years.
• Charlize Theron as the Wife, who appears in flashback. Theron joined the film because she was a fan of the book and had previously worked with producer Nick Wechsler on the 2000 film The Yards.^[4] The character will have a larger role in the film than she did in the book. Hillcoat said of the expanded role, “I think it’s fine to depart from the book as long as you maintain the spirit of it.”^[5]
• Michael K. Williams as a thief.^[3]
• Guy Pearce as a father wandering with his family.^[3]
• Robert Duvall as an old, dying man.^[3]

Production

In November 2006, producer Nick Wechsler used independent financing to acquire film rights to adapt the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy. When Wechsler had watched John Hillcoat’s 2005 film The Proposition after reading The Road, the producer decided to pursue Hillcoat to direct the film adaptation. Wechsler described Hillcoat’s style: “There was something beautiful in the way John captured the stark primitive humanity of the West in that movie.”^[6] In April 2007, Joe Penhall was hired to script the adapted screenplay. Wechsler and his fellow producers Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz planned to have a script and an actor cast to portray the father before pursuing a distributor for the film.^[7] By the following November, actor Viggo Mortensen had entered negotiations with the filmmakers to portray the father, though he was occupied with filming Appaloosa in New Mexico.^[8]

With a budget of $20 million,^[9] filming began in southwestern Pennsylvania in late February 2008 for eight weeks and moved on to Louisiana and Oregon.^[10] Pennsylvania, where most of the filming took place, was chosen for its tax breaks and its abundance of locations that looked post-apocalyptic: coalfields, dunes, and run-down parts of Pittsburgh.^[3] Filming was also done at the 1892 Amusement park (Conneaut Lake Park) after one of the parks buildings (the Dreamland Ballroom) was destroyed in a fire in February 2008. Hillcoat also said of using Pittsburgh as a practical location, “It’s a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing, but in winter, it can be very bleak. There are city blocks that are abandoned. The woods can be brutal. We didn’t want to go the CGI world.” Filmmakers also shot scenes in parts of New Orleans that had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and on Mount St. Helens in Washington.^[11]

Hillcoat sought to make the film faithful to the spirit of the book, creating “a world in severe trauma“, although never explaining the circumstances of the apocalyptic event. According to Hillcoat, “That’s what makes it more realistic, then it immediately becomes about survival and how you get through each day as opposed to what actually happened.”^[2] Filmmakers took advantage of days with bad weather to portray the post-apocalyptic environment. Mark Forker, the director of special effects for the film, sought to make the landscape convincing, handling sky replacement and digitally removing greenery from scenes.^[3]

The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike was used for much of production,^[5] with evidence shown at the eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel. The exterior of the tunnel was somewhat restored for filming, with the doors to the ventilation shaft repainted as well as the white paint near the base of the tunnel entrance being painted tan to match the rest of the exterior of the tunnels. (When the property was still owned by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, vandalism took place on the abandoned tunnels sometime in the 1980s, with the white paint used to cover up graffiti.) The same was done with the western portal to Sideling Hill as well as the eastern portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel. Filming did not take place on the western portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel towards Breezewood, Pennsylvania, as well as the Laurel Hill Tunnel further west due to the latter having been used by Chip Ganassi Racing for wind tunnel testing since 2004.

The eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel in 2006, before filming commenced.

The eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel in 2009 after filming of the movie shows evidence of the tunnel being mildly restored.

Release

The Road was originally scheduled to be released in November 2008. It was pushed back to be released in December, and then pushed back a second time to sometime in 2009. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio decided that the film would benefit from a longer post-production process and a less crowded release calendar.^[12] A new release date was scheduled for October 16, 2009.^[13] However, according to reports from Screen Rant and /Film, the Weinsteins have decided at the last minute to delay the film to November 25, 2009^[1]

The film had its world premiere in September 2009 at the Venice International Film Festival where it was in competition for the Golden Lion and Silver Lion prizes, and then at the Telluride Film Festival. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

[edit] Reception

The film currently holds a 93% ‘Fresh’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews.^[14] Esquire’s Tom Chiarella screened the film before it was released and called it “a brilliantly directed adaptation of a beloved novel, a delicate and anachronistically loving look at the immodest and brutish end of us all. You want them to get there, you want them to get there, you want them to get there — and yet you do not want it, any of it, to end.” He also referred to it as “the most important movie of the year”.^[15] In an early review the Guardian film critic Xan Brooks described The Road as “a haunting, harrowing, powerful film” ^[16] with Mortensen “perfectly cast” as the Man. Brooks awarded the film four stars out of five.

References

External links

• Official website
• The Road at the Internet Movie Database
• The Road at Allmovie
• Photo gallery at USA Today

[hide] v • d • e Works of Cormac McCarthy Novels The Orchard Keeper (1965) • Outer Dark (1968) • Child of God (1974) • Suttree (1979) • Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West (1985) • All the Pretty Horses (1992) • The Crossing (1994) • Cities of the Plain (1998) • No Country for Old Men (2005) • The Road (2006) Screenplays The Gardener’s Son (1976) Plays The Stonemason (1995) • The Sunset Limited (2006) Adaptations The Gardener’s Son (1977) • All the Pretty Horses (2000) • No Country for Old Men (2007) • The Road (2009)