‘The Road’ May Get Pushed Out of ’08

If you were as excited to see John Hillcoat’s interpretation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, ‘The Road’, as I was, you may be more than a little disappointed by this news.   According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film, slated for a limited release on November 14, has been pushed back to December 10, and it may not come out this year at all.

Dimension execs, 2929 Entertainment producers, and Nick Wechsler Productions producers are all scheduled to meet to decide on the the film’s ultimate fate.   Where the film is in post-production has not been announce, but sources close to the project claim it is “decidedly not done.”

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, ‘The Road’ stars Viggo Mortensen as a man who, with his son, must travel the roads of the United States attempting to survive.   The novel was dreary but very passionate.   Hillcoat previously directed the amazing wester, ‘The Proposition’, and I was anxious to see him deliver that same brand of filmmaking to this story.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter