The Road is an upcoming film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Joe Penhall. The film is based on the 2006 novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and it 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 October 16, 2009.
Plot: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food and each other.
Cast
* Viggo Mortensen as the Man. 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.”
* Kodi Smit-McPhee as the Boy.
* 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. 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.”
* Michael K. Williams as a thief.
* Guy Pearce as a father wandering with his family.
* Robert Duvall as an old, dying man.
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