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No Adaptation of Stephen King's 'Dark Tower' for J.J. Abrams
14 hours ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
A frequently commented article around the site is a post I wrote back in September 2008 when the idea of a seven film adaptation of Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series was floated. The total comments on the article have reached 180 and some of them are long, long, long as it is obvious there is a massive interest in this series. At the time I wrote that article I was just starting the seventh and final book and have obviously completed the whole series since then still believe there is no chance we ever see a live-action seven film series and it seems the current dream of it happening has been shot down.
Speaking with MTV, Abrams said, "The 'Dark Tower' thing is tricky. It's such an important piece of writing. The truth is that Damon and I are not looking at that right now."
As MTV's Eric Ditzian points out, »
- Brad Brevet
New Projects For Hillcoat And Cave
3 November 2009 10:43 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
A month or so ago it came to light that The Road's John Hillcoat was hoping to get an adaptation of Matt Bondurant's prohibition-set novel The Wettest Country in the World up and running. No paperwork had been signed, but he was reported as having the support of Ryan Gosling, Shia Labeouf, Scarlet Johansson and Paul Dano, who all wanted to be in it.Along with confirmation of that from the horse's mouth (well, Hillcoat's) Atomic Popcorn have just learned that a script has already been written, by a certain Mr Nick Cave.Cave dabbled with film as an actor in the 90s, with roles in Johnny Suede and Ghosts of the Civil Dead, but after a long hiatus during which he seemed to leave the cinema well alone, he's made a slight return in recent years, writing the music, along with constant collaborator and Bad Seed Warren Ellis, »
First Look: New Book Art for Upcoming Movie 'The Road'
3 November 2009 10:36 AM, PST | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Above is a first look at the re-release book art for The Road, which enters movie theaters (and the Oscar fray) in just a few short weeks on November 25, 2009. The 2006 book by Cormac McCarthy (No Country for Old Men) was a bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner that followed the journey of a man and his son across the landscape of a postapocalyptic America. It's now been adapted to movie form by director John Hillcoat (The Proposition), and debuted to much acclaim at this year's Venice International Film Festival (it's currently rated 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). Starring Viggo Mortensen and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee, the movie's been described as both "bleak" and "moving" and, per the cover art, was declared by Esquire magazine as "The Most Important...
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New Trailer from The Road
1 November 2009 11:50 PM, PST | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Dimension Films recently released this new movie trailer from the upcoming Post Apocalyptic thriller “The Road” by director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) and starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall and Brenna Roth. Synopsis: A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization amongst the nomadic cannibal tribes in 2929 Productions’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s thrilling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road. John Hillcoat (The Proposition) directs from a screenplay provided by Joe Penhall. Charlize Theron co-stars in the Dimension Films release. - Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest movie stills [...] »
- Brian Corder
New 'The Road' Trailer Reels In the Bleak
30 October 2009 7:38 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Dimension Films has presented another look at the November-released "The Road" in the form of a new trailer. Debuted via Yahoo! Movies, the two-minute plus sneak peek offers a more depressing tone of the movie. A narration is provided by leading man Viggo Mortensen, while glimpses of him and his on-screen son, Kodi Smit-McPhee, struggling to survive flash.
This post-apocalyptic movie is based on Cormac McCarthy's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It follows an unnamed father and his young son as they make their way toward the coast for possible food, shelter and safety after an unspecified cataclysmic event. With scarce shelter and resources available to them, they have to avoid the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road along the way.
Dubbed to be "the most important film of the year" by Esquire, "The Road" stars Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall in addition to Mortensen and Smit-McPhee. »
- AceShowbiz.com
New Trailer For The Road Keeps Carrying The Fire
30 October 2009 2:03 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Don.t let the relatively unknown director, John Hillcoat (The Proposition), and writer, Joe Penhall (Blue/Orange), scare you away.The Road is shaping up to be nothing less than a thoughtful and invigorating ride. With a solid 88% .Fresh. rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, this film isn.t poised for much disappointment. Adapting Cormac McCarthy.s Pullitzer Prize winning 2006 novel of the same name, the film pits two nameless protagonists, Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), in a dreary, Terminator Salvation-like visually gritty post-apocalyptic landscape. Receiving support from Charlize Therone, Robert Duvall, and Guy Pearce, the cast certainly rounds itself out quite nicely. Wait a minute.let.s rewind: Did I just liken Cormac McCarthy.s The Road to McG.s Terminator Salvation? I am so sorry. Please forgive me. And, while we.re asking for forgiveness, please also forgive the trailer.s utterly ridiculous score that kicks »
London Film Festival ‘09: The Road
21 October 2009 5:47 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Road Directed by John Hillcoat For fans of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road, the novel's journey from page to screen has been almost as harrowing as the one endured by the book's protagonists. Delayed by over a year due to unspecified wrangling within the temple of Miramax, this grim, biblical parable is finally seeing the light of day at film festivals around the globe. Given the book's critical acclaim, its adoring fan base, and the cinematic scope of the 2007 novel, it came as no surprise when the film was optioned for a film adaptation. The news that it would be helmed by Australian director John Hillcoat was equally well-received, given the quality of his earlier work, in particular his Outback western The Proposition, which demonstrated Hillcoat's aptitude for crafting an uncompromising vision of a disintegrating society buried within a violent landscape; themes echoed in McCarthy's The Road. »
- John
Final “The Road” Poster
21 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
A final poster for post-armageddon epic “The Road“, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall has been released.
A father (Mortensen) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) 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.
Director John Hillcoat (The Proposition) led the production, based on a screenplay by Joe Penhall and Nick Wechsler.
“The Road” opens November 25th. 2009. [source: ComingSoon]
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- Allan Ford
New Poster for The Road Starring Viggo Mortensen
21 October 2009 2:14 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The new poster for “The Road” wants you to know that you can stand up to the apocalypse with a revolver and a love for your son. Also, don’t forget to wear layers.
While Dimension has slapped it around the calendar countless times, it looks like we’ll finally get to see John Hillcoat’s (”The Proposition”) adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s movie on November 25th. For families, it’s going to be a tough decision of whether they go see this or “Old Dogs”. While it may not have Robin Williams and John Travolta getting into wacky situations, “The Road” has a stronger tie-in to Thanksgiving because in this poster Mortensen is looking at the world’s last butterball turkey. Hit the jump to see the poster and think of ways you can trick your family members into seeing “The Road”.
For those just tuning in, here’s »
- Matt Goldberg
BFI Lff Review: The Road
16 October 2009 2:42 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
The Road defeated me. It crushed and destroyed me. It broke my heart in the first fifteen minutes and spent the next hour and a half trampling it through the dead and dusty ground. It is a haunting and poetic work, soulful and subtle in its tone and the dark, elegiac cadences. Director John Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall have adapted Cormac McCarthy’s apocalyptic novel with a masterful touch and the result is incredibly powerful and moving.
The beginning is the end. With a soulful, almost sleepy, melody the films awakes to The Man and his Wife in their house. She is pregnant as is the mood, with a tangible anxiety. Then outside we hear the plumes of panic in the air, people screaming, unearthly lights and the Earth’s deep, portentous rumble. As in the novel we are never told what happened, director John Hillcoat keeps the fire »
- Jon Lyus
The Big Names Circling Hillcoat's 'Wettest County'
1 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Recently, I rejoiced about all of the upcoming projects that The Proposition and The Road director John Hillcoat's got brewing. But there's also another in turnaround that's getting new life. As The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog reports, there's a whole slew of talent circling around the once-struggling The Wettest County in the World. Scarlett Johansson's name has been thrown around as well as one heck of a diverse mix of young male talent -- Ryan Gosling, Shia Labeouf, Michael Shannon, and Paul Dano.
Sorry, Shia, but I feel compelled to sing: "Which of these boys is not like the other?" If there's any chance of getting into one of those odd-man-out scenarios, this would be the one. i can't imagine they're all up for the same part (as there are 4 main gigs), but could he really compare to four actors who have proven themselves to be quite hardcore and skilled? »
- Monika Bartyzel
Actors Circle Wettest Country
30 September 2009 11:38 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Shia Labeouf, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Dano and Ryan Gosling are all keen to get The Wettest Country In The World up and running, despite its having been dropped from Columbia's schedules, according to The Hollywood Reporter this morning. Set during the great Depression, it's based on Matt Bondurant's novel; a family crime saga about three brothers running a gang brewing and selling that ol' moonshine liquor. John Hillcoat (The Proposition, The Road) is attached as director, and production company Red Wagon (Memoirs of a Geisha, Jarhead) are now shopping the project around as a potential indie (the same thing happened when Universal abandoned Darren Aronofsky's The Black Swan).We should stress that none of the aforementioned stars have actually signed anything, but they're happy for Red Wagon to be using their names in its pitches to the suits. Its an indication that, in the currently rather risk-averse Hollywood mainstream, »
Buy This: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Soundtrack Collection
24 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The best movie scores don't just add extra depth to a movie, but they take on lives on their own; they sneak into your subconscious so that the next time you hear Nino Rota you feel like downing some espressos and dancing in the Trevi Fountain.
Post-punk/death rocker turned mustachioed Southern Gothic philosopher Nick Cave and his fellow Bad Seed bandmate Warren Ellis* have become standout film composers in the past few years, beginning with their collaboration on The Proposition, a Western from the land Down Under directed by The Road's John Hillcoat and written by Nick Cave. They also created the soundscape for the sadly underseen and somewhat overlong The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Their most recent collaboration on the score for The Road is worthy of an Oscar nomination -- subtle, appropriately dark but not overbearing, and elegant.
However, the two »
- Jenni Miller
Tiff ‘09: Short Takes
24 September 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Trash Humpers Directed by Harmony Korine Anyone who enjoyed Korine's previous feature, the funny, surreal Mister Lonely, may have been looking forward to what he was to do next in anticipation of a further expansion into pseudo-accessible territory. Instead, Korine decided to jump off the arthouse deep end with Trash Humpers, a reasonably well-executed conceptual short that somehow found its way to an incredibly tortuous 78 minutes. An "artifact" rather than a film, Humpers is meant to act as a simulation of found art, an odd relic from an unknown universe bestowed to us through some incredibly unfortuitous happenstance. Perhaps if Korine had issued the film (shot on deliberately primitive video) anonymously in a soiled plastic bag, the film might have accomplished just such an effect after being rediscovered by the bored film students of future decades, but as it stands it's merely an intermittently funny but mostly agonizing collection of »
- Simon
Cave 'inspired by Nabokov, Amis, Roeg'
17 September 2009 5:32 AM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Nick Cave has revealed the literary influences on his second novel The Death Of Bunny Munro. The musician and writer told thelondonpaper that the book was initially planned as a screenplay after director John Hillcoat suggested he write another film after their 2005 collaboration The Proposition. Cave said: "I was influenced by literary stylists like Vladimir Nabokov and Martin Amis. It's not particularly fashionable, but I love that heady, slightly hallucinatory style of writing, where no-one just gets up from the table. "The Nicolas Roeg film Walkabout also inspired me. It starts off with a traumatic incident involving a father and two children walking across (more) »
- By Mayer Nissim
Exclusive: Director John Hillcoat On The Road's Misleading Trailer: 'Yeah, There Was Controversy. From Me As Well.'
12 September 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
It's been a long journey for The Road, the adaptation of the bestselling Cormac McCarthy novel about a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) eking out a desperate existence in a treacherous American landscape after an unspecified cataclysm wipes out nearly all traces of vegetation, wildlife and the human race. Rights were snapped up before its first 2006 printing, and director John Hillcoat, on the strength of his brutal and unflinching Australian western, The Proposition, was tasked with bringing its colorless nightmare to life. A seemingly endless game of scheduling roulette followed -- first the Weinsteins pushed it ahead a full year, then gave it incremental nudges, until it finally landed a release date of November 25th. The final insult? A trailer that played up the story's end-of-the-world appeal, "enhanced" with the kind of stock disaster footage you imagine Roland Emmerich using as a MacBook screensaver.
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Scenes We Love: The Proposition
10 September 2009 5:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
There are many reasons to love The Proposition. It's written and scored by the irreplaceable Nick Cave. It's perfectly directed by John Hillcoat. It's both thrilling and strenuous on the heart. And above all else -- it's wonderfully cast, from the monologue-delivering John Hurt to the sadistic charm of Danny Huston's Arthur Burns.
While I appreciated Huston's work well before he headed for the dry grime of the Outback in the 1880s, his stint as the violent sociopath jettisoned him to a whole new level. What was so great about his performance is that while he maintained some of the exuberant charm he's known for, Huston used it as a way to balance the truly sadistic aspects of his character. Without a doubt, Arthur Burns is a dangerous man who does terrible things -- and Huston plays it perfectly -- but that little edge of charm gives the character »
- Monika Bartyzel
'The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus' And More In Our Toronto International Film Festival Preview
10 September 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Tonight, the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off with the world premiere screening of "Creation," directed by Jon Amiel. The movie stars real-life husband and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin, respectively. It is an adaptation of the Darwin bio "Annie's Box" by Randal Keynes.
Of course, "Creation" just kicks things off. There's a whole weekend of indie madness to immerse yourself in. Sure, those of us who aren't fortunate enough to be in Toronto are going to have to wait. But there are some good flicks coming out of the fest, stuff that you're sure to see hit theaters in some form in the coming months. Here are a few of the highlights we have to look forward to...
"Precious"
Now here's one I've actually seen, earlier this year at Sundance. I can't say if anything other than the name has changed, but »
- Adam Rosenberg
The Road Release Delayed Six Weeks
9 September 2009 2:14 PM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Variety reports that Dimension Films has pushed back the release date for The Road to November 25. The movie, which stars Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron, was originally scheduled for an October 16 release.
Dimension head Bob Weinstein said the date was moved back in order to position it for Golden Globe contention, dispelling the notion that the studio pushed back the release due to worries about how the audience would receive it.
We've been getting great audience reaction at Venice and Telluride.... We feel that this is a commercial film that's worthy of a wide release. The Road tells the story of a father (Mortenson) and his son wandering south across a post-apocalyptic America, largely devoid of plant and animal life, where many people have turned to cannibalism. Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce also star.
The script from Joe Penhall is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, who »
- Rich Z Zwelling
Yes! John Hillcoat Returns to the Literary World of Nick Cave
8 September 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Now that The Road is making its way to audiences -- with a solid review from our Eugene Novikov -- word of future features is starting to pour in, and man, the news is sweet. Variety starts off their post-Road piece with the news that screenwriter Joe Penhall is gearing up to remake the Gallic heist film La Bonne Annee, and wants Daniel Craig to star in it. But the better news follows that. While Road director John Hillcoat always works with Nick Cave (who scored the Viggo Mortensen-starring drama), he is now gearing up for another Cave-penned piece.
This is a fresh breath of cinematic air to anyone who has seen The Proposition -- the film Cave penned in less than a month, and one that single-handedly made me rethink my distaste of westerns. Unfortunately, this is a mixed blessing: The gig in question will be an adaptation »
- Monika Bartyzel
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