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Last man standing: what Cormac McCarthy made of my adaptation of The Road

14 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Cormac McCarthy won a Pulitzer for his novel The Road. So what would he make of the film version? Playwright Joe Penhall, who adapted it, relives the tensest screening of his life – and the drinking session that followed

The Road is one of the most frightening, daring, dark and desperate books to have emerged in recent years, rightly winning the Pulitzer prize for its author Cormac McCarthy and going on to sell millions. Fortunately for me, it hadn't been published when I began the task of adapting it for film. Unfortunately for me, by the time I had finished my screenplay a year later, it was Oprah Winfrey's favourite book, and McCarthy, who had seen the Coen brothers' film of his No Country for Old Men win four Oscars, was showing a keen interest, along with the rest of Hollywood. McCarthy, who has a messianic following, is frequently described »

- Joe Penhall

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The Road | Film Review

4 January 2010 8:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

A stark adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel brings out all its harrowing yet ultimately life-enhancing qualities, writes Philip French

In the past, some of it not too distant, people the world over have thought during times of plague and famine that they were living in the last days of our planet. For most of us today, such visions are of a future where a nuclear holocaust, global warming or some other man-created calamity threaten the imminent end of life on earth. In his masterpiece, The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman brought together both experiences by projecting the nuclear angst of the 1950s (a major cinematic subject at the time) on to a Sweden of the Middle Ages visited by the black death. Earlier, the 1936 film based on Hg Wells's Things To Come foresaw a world war in 1940 that would return Britain to a dark age of tribes battling for depleted resources. »

- Philip French

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