The Road News (Mostly) and Rumors (Not-so-much)

About the Shooting of Cormac McCarthy's The Road

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5/14/09: The trailer is finally out! Not the best trailer, but given what could have happened, it really wasn't too bad. And the movie looks as good as we have hoped. The trailer was in the theaters by 5/15, accompanying movies like Angels and Demons.

5/13/09: Outstanding article in the June issue of Esquire: The Road Is the Most Important Movie of the Year. I hope this isn't a "kiss of death" kind of article - while it's insightful and well-written, the other two major film articles in Esquire that month find Terminator: Salvation and Funny People over praiseworthy.

5/3/09: It's official - the movie is coming out 10/16/09!

4/21/09: Been adding a few interesting links lately. If you're curious about what the production design is like, production artist Chris Kennedy has uploaded an interesting collection of art that he created for the movie. It's fabulous, and captures the mood of the book very well.

2/11/09: CineFools reports that the film is done. Yay! The Weinstein Company Web site has finally updated release dates for some of their future movies (like Nine). However, while The Road is listed, it still doesn't have a release date. The official Web site for The Road remains content-free. Film-Releases.com doesn't yet list a release date either.

1/5/09: Still continues to be a dead news time for The Road. The official Web site is still blank, and there's no word of a trailer or a poster. Weinstein Company continues to hold back advertising their movies until the last possible minute. I saw a trailer for The Reader only a few days before it came out. There's a trailer for Fanboys (due out on 2/6) online, but I haven't seen it in the theater.

However, a few movie critics have noted that The Road is on their "most anticipated" list for 2009 (Paste Magazine, Seattle Examiner, Phoenix East Valley Review). I'm not a critic, but it's certainly at the top of my list (along with The Lovely Bones, The Tempest, Star Trek, Harry Potter, and She's Out of My League (which was later put off until 2010) ).

10/18/08: It's official now - according to The Hollywood Reporter, The Road's release been pushed to early 2009. While I'm sad it's been moved to 2009, I always felt Thanksgiving weekend for a wide release of this movie wasn't such a hot idea either.

10/16/08: The Road has had at least one test screening of a rough cut of the movie. The audience response was cautiously positive to rave (with at least one strong negative). Links to some test screening comments here. At the same time, there's a rumor that the movie's release might be pushed off until 2009. This isn't mere "fan-boy mouth-foaming;" this is from Dave Karger's Oscar Watch blog. Karger also writes for Entertainment Weekly, which has done a fair amount to keep The Road mentioned in the mainstream media over the last few months.

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 (possibly in early May, once the Pennsylvania shoot was done), 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).

The official Web site for The Road will be at http://www.theroad-movie.com/, however it's still content-free. At least they finally changed the old release dates to "coming soon."

For people who can't wait to see the trailer, keep checking The Weinstein Company and IMDB. I'll add a link here as soon as the trailer hits the Web. For movie discussions, see the IMDB board, the Facebook site for The Road News and Rumors, or the discussion at Criterion. For critic composite reviews, check Rotten Tomatoes and for viewer comments check IMDB once the movie is out.

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"

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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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