I'll be interested to hear how the film does. The book was a bestseller, and bleak.

Academy Award buzz already:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/53107,people,news,oscar-talk-for-cormac-mccarthys-the-road-from-the-venice-film-festival

"Good news from the Venice Film Festival for fans of Cormac McCarthy, regarded by many as the finest living writer in the English language. The Australian director John Hillcoat, best known for his videos with fellow Aussie Nick Cave, has made a great movie of McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 novel The Road, sticking closely to the original which, given the bleakness of the plot, is quite something."

...shot the film in rural Pennsylvania and in post-Katrina Louisiana....



A not-so-complimentary review from Variety:

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117940928.html?categoryid=3212&cs=1

New York Times article on the making of the film (in 2008)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/movies/27road.html