Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Gets a Release Date?

The adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Robert Duvall apparently now has a release date. The Road won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was written by the author who wrote the novel No Country for Old Men, which was adapted to film and went on to win four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Basically, in my mind McCarthy is the the pimp of all current American writers, as we haven’t even talked about his best book, Blood Meridian yet. Worst Previews is reporting that Dimension Films has announced an October release date for the film. If you haven’t read the book already (which would seem tough since this book actually got heavy mainstream pub), you are doing yourself a disservice. If you haven’t, you probably haven’t read Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go either, so I just gave you a pointer to your next two favorite books ever, and then you can go watch the upcoming movies!

Man, I hope this is as good as No Country as I’d love Viggo to get an Oscar – I mean the guy was Weps in Crimson Tide! Below I have a gallery of stills from The Road:

    
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Synopsis of the book:

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.

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. They 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 wearting, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

    
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