Chomping at the bit to see John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bleak post-apocalyptic tale,”The Road” starring Viggo Mortensen and with appearances by Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce among others?
So are we. Still no word when the film is coming out, but bits of the score written by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are up for listen over at the BBC in a radio special on McCarthy, the book and the film adaptation. The music starts around the 3:30 mark and is typically haunting and elegiac. Cave and Ellis did the incredible score for “The Assassination of Jesse James” and “The Proposition,” that was also directed by Hillcoat.
In the BBC special, ‘Road’ scriptwriter Joe Penhall mentions that McCarthy has seen the film and thought it was extraordinarily powerful, but complained about little “niggly things, the odd line that I had changed to make it less literary and more obvious and he quite rightly had [issues] with some little things.” They also note, like we’ve been saying all along, if “The Road” is an Oscar contender, we won’t get to see it early 2009 like early reports suggested and its likely the picture won’t appear until the fall.
[Io9/BBC] PS, thanks to Drew for publicly calling us out on Twitter about contacting the wrong Warren Ellis, we love when our friends make sure everyone knows we’re dumb jackasses. 😉