Further Down the Road

Someone was paying attention when No Country for Josh Brolin won best picture. Apparently, adapting a Cormac McCarthy novel equals cinematic success. Well, at least critically. THE ROAD, old Cormac's postapocalyptic journey is set to hit theaters around Thanksgiving with Viggo Mortensen leading an amazing cast (Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron, Robbie Duvall). This movie is guaranteed an Oscar nomination somewhere. The only thing I worry about is everything else. I have never heard of the director or the screenwriter. So the good news is I can't blame Brett Ratner for fucking another movie up. I hope the film takes advantage of the engulfing silence of the novel. The interaction between the father and son is all about exactly that: their actions. If there is a narrator I will never forgive Joe Penhall. Unless said narrator is Morgan Freeman. I have a bad feeling that THE ROAD may get the I AM LEGEND treatment. Screenwriters just don't know how to handle the apocalypse anymore. At least Deep Impact knew it sucked so much that at the last minute the writer asked Morgan Freeman if he would be the President.