There's an article in today's New York Times about the production of a Weinstein brothers-backed feature film based on the novel. It stars the great Viggo Mortensen in the lead and features name actors like Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall in relatively small roles. They seem to have found some young phenom as the boy, the son of Mortensen's character, the two of them wandering on a quest to reach the ocean in the horrific and barren post-nuclear future created so searingly by McCarthy. And the Bros made the great decision to hire John Hillcoat as director, who's previous work was the terrific Australian Western penned by Nick Cave, The Proposition.
What makes this article a special treat for fans of the David Simon/HBO show is the appearance of Michael Kenneth Williams, a.k.a. Omar, in the article and the movie. Williams plays "The Thief" and will end up naked in the picture. Per the article, he seems to have added a little improv on set and gotten kudos from the youngest actor as well as Mortensen.
Will anyone go see a bleak movie (no matter how gussied up) based on one of the bleakest books of all time?
Swimming in a sea of summer superhero/fantasy pictures, I can't wait.
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