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Some more names have been added to the cast of John Hillcoat’s follow-up to The Road, including an actor who involvement will make this the third collaboration with the director. Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman are onboard for The Wettest County in the World, another adaptation for the director and based on the novel of [...]
Tom Hardy continues his ascension up the Hollywood ladder with news coming in that he’ll be teaming up with another young star (Transformers man Shia LaBeouf) for John Hillcoat’s next feature. According to the LA Times, the two are set to star in the director’s follow up to The Road – a period thriller called [...]
The writing/directing duo behind the hugely successful indie comedy Juno are set to reunite for a new film project, tentatively titled Young Adult. Jason Reitman will direct from a script by Diablo Cody, who has been garnering huge acclaim since Juno propelled her into the public eye, having written Jennifer’s Body and episodes The United [...]
This week sees the US release of The Road. Adapted from the Cormac McCarthynovel, it follows the story of a man and his son struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic environment. The man is played by Viggo Mortensen. Relatively unknown before winning the role of Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he has [...]
The second trailer has been released for Viggo Mortensen’s latest movie, The Road. Jon was lucky enough to see this movie at the London Film Festival and as soon as it finished text me to say it’s the movie of the year. You can read his review here. The Road is based on the book [...]
If you haven’t already checked it out, head over to Jon’s review of The Road which stars Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The Road is directed by John Hillcoat and is based on the novel written by Cormac McCarthy. After Jon saw it, he rang me to tell me [...]
The Road defeated me. It crushed and destroyed me. It broke my heart in the first fifteen minutes and spent the next hour and a half trampling it through the dead and dusty ground. It is a haunting and poetic work, soulful and subtle in its tone and the dark, elegiac cadences. Director John Hillcoat [...]
