The TV Addict 

Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, THE ROAD, was a profoundly literate and moving work that remains one of the better examples of fiction I’ve read in my lifetime. That makes me somewhat fiercely protective of it in lieu of a film translation, and also incredibly skeptical that it can even be done well. Then again, as accomplished as the language is in the book, at its heart it’s really just a poignant story about the perseverance of love between father and son as they try to survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape. That can be done quite easily in film. It doesn’t hurt that they’ve got a director, John Hillcoat, whose made an excellent film that wrangled with this sort of landscape before (THE PROPOSITION), and actors like Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Guy Pearce involved. Anyway, that’s a long way of saying: here’s the very first image to appear from the film expected to be released this fall.