New Photos Will Tide Us Over For 'The Road' - Fall '09 At This Point?

We haven’t been able to figure out what’s going on with John Hillcoat’s “The Road” yet and its not for lack of trying. We’ve pestered The Weinstein PR people a few times now and we can’t get them to even hint at a release date or get anything out of them other than a stonewalled, “there’s no update.” But, some new images have found their way onto the web today so that’s at least something (some larger versions on a click).

The last reports in the trades suggested “The Road” — which stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as father in son traversing the perils of a Cormac McCarthy-inspired post-apocalyptic world — would come out in the first quarter of 2009, and the month of February was even thrown around. Well, February is here and there’s no way in hell, they’re releasing it later this month or even March at this point.

TWC is going to at least give two months of marketing heads up — at least! — so given the tone of the film (some have said, “prepared to have your heart torn open”) it’s looking more and more like this film is going to be saved for the fall, Oscar-bait season where it belongs, which pleases us to no end (they wouldn’t release this in the summer would they??). Hillcoat’s “The Proposition,” in 2005 was a fantastic film with a similar bleak and ravaged look, so we’re greatly looking forward to it. Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Michael Kenneth Williams and Robert Duvall all make small appearances in the picture as well. The delayed-movie is one of the key films in our 60 Most Anticipated Films of 2009 list.