The Road

A trailer has been released for the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bleaker than dead babies novel, The Road.

Directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition) it seems that this adaptation will be taking a more action oriented stance than the source material did. This may not be a bad thing as the story was (intentionally) exceptionally ponderous and slow paced. No bad thing for a novel but maybe not such a good tactic for a mainstream movie.

Taking place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that the world has become in the near future the story follows the efforts of one man and his son to survive against cold, hunger and cannibalistic fellow survivors. This is no Mad Max or Doomsday however. The tone is relentlessly downbeat and the cannibals are no fetishised future folk but rather desperate people reverting to animailistic tendencies in the face of the utter destruction of civilisation.

The trailer suggests a good grasp of the atmosphere that made the book so memorable though Charlize Theron’s presence raises some questions seeing as her character was not present in the novel.  

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