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About the Shooting of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

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The Road was primarily filmed in Western Pennsylvania from late February until late April 2008. The production resumed in Oregon in May. There was some July shooting at Mt. St. Helens (for its truly amazing treefall and general devastation). At some point, a crew went to shoot in New Orleans (for its battered by Katrina look). The Fulton County News reported that the scenes with Mother (Charlize Theron) were filmed in Seattle (though Astoria and Portland in Oregon seem more likely).

Follow the movie discussion on IMDB and the critic composite ratings (once the movie is out) at Rotten Tomatoes. For people who can't wait to see the trailer, keep checking The Weinstein Company, Box Office, and Entertainment Weekly's Calendar and Trailer List. I'll add a link here as soon as the trailer hits the Web.

The Road is being released in November. It'll open in New York and Los Angeles on November 14th, will open in about 20 selected cities on November 21, and will open nationally the 26th. Since Pittsburgh's a small market, I don't expect to see it until the 26th (though it would be nice if Pittsburgh, which served as home base for The Road shoot for about two months, would get the movie as a "selected city"). It looks like the movie will not appear at any of the fall festivals in advance of its release.

Viggo Mortensen may have made the most apt description of both the book The Road and the filming of the movie when he told The New York Times:     "It's a love story that's also an endurance contest"

News

While a number of media articles make it sound like Charlize Theron filmed her part in Pennsylvania, it is unlikely that she was here. While Mother's part in the novel The Road is pivotal, it's also very short and was reportedly filmed in Oregon in May. Robert Duvall was in Pennsylvania in late March, and appeared to have only filmed in the Nemacolin area. Guy Pearce was spotted during the Lake Erie shooting. The New York Times article spotted Michael K. Williams during the Lake Erie shoot.

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