New 'The Road' clips

If you've read the book, you know what happens and that, like most of his books, it isn't that happy of a story. After struggling to get released the movie is finally coming out sometime this month. I think.

'The Road' tells the story of a man and his son who are struggling to survive and make it to the coast after an unknown disaster has devastated at least the United States. Check out the five new clips, they cover the feel of the book pretty well and the movie also includes Guy Pearce. I don't know who he plays exactly, but I'm glad he's in the movie. Garett Dillahunt plays one of the cannibalistic hillbillies and he is seriously underrated as an actor.

The Road

The trailer for The Road popped up everywhere today and I hope that the movie turns out as bleak, dark and desolate as the book. I don't need it sugar-coated and made happy. The book is about a man trying to protect his son from anything and everybody as they make their way south to the coast and that includes murderous gangs of left-over survivors (Garret "Cromartie/John Henry" Dillahunt plays one) who seem to track down other survivors and kill and eat them, so I don't need it to be made into a saccharine affair.

I see that Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce are also in the cast, though I can only guess who Duvall plays and have no idea what role Guy Pearce would play in a movie with very limited characters other than the man and his son.

I also wish they would leave out an explanation for what caused this bleak landscape. It looks like the studio wants people to see it as some kind of natural "Global Warming" disaster, since that's so en vogue these days, but really why is it necessary to have a reason? There isn't one in the book, so leave it that way. Personally I put it in my head that there was a nuclear disaster, and I think that's the point of the book; come up with your own explanation.

I still am interested after such a long wait...check the trailer out below: