The Road new clips

Two more short clips from The Road. C'mon, stupid movie, be out now, dammit! The Road will be in cinemas on November 25.

See What Life Was Like Before Viggo Hit "The Road" - The Road - io9

The Road clips

Five New Clips From "The Road" Are Disturbing, Religious - The Road - io9

The Road trailer finally here

Just yesterday I was writing about the first review of the upcoming The Road movie, and lo and behold here's the trailer finally available. Very much like the Esquire review lamented, the trailer plays up like an action-packed apocalyptica thriller, with fast cuts, cannibal drums and catchy phrases like "RUN" and "HIDE". io9, who put up the trailer (of which you can see a few stills above), even goes so far as calling it a "terrible Roland Emmerich thrill-ride."

I know the purpose of theatrical trailers is to get everyone interested in the film, but I have a feeling this movie isn't the fast paced on the run from cannibals, fire storm, kaboom, pow! flick the trailer makes it out to be - and it shouldn't be. The story is, at its heart, about a man and a boy and holding on to their last shreds of hope while encountering the darkest sides of humanity. It is not an end of the world catastrophe flick that puts a father and son on a fast-paced adventure.

Catch the trailer at the io9 web site, and make up your own mind. The Road will be in theatres in October.

io9 - The Road Trailer Plays Like Terrible Roland Emmerich Thrill Ride - The Road

The Road movie first review

Esquire has already reviewed The Road, scheduled for opening this fall, and lauds it as "the most important movie of this year":

The terror of it is in a normal world made vacant. There is a surprising terror in a landscape of farmhouses full of possessions that have no function, a remarkable danger in a pile of old hammers, in the possibility of forgetting what things were once for.

The Road Movie Review - Inside Movie of the Road - Esquire

The Road script review

Quiet Earth has gotten hold of a copy of the screenplay for the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's superb apocalyptic novel The Road. Huge praise is shelled out for the writing, so the expectations towards the movie (slated for 2009) are certainly high:

To be blunt, the script is a complete stunner. It is a devastating masterwork which, I'm glad to report, has been written with absolute devotion to the original novel. If this is the script that gets filmed, then The Road will not only be the most important post-apocalyptic film ever made but it will profoundly affect the cinema going world. But I can't help but wonder; is the world ready for a film this dark?

Quiet Earth World Exclusive: THE ROAD script review