May 14 2009'The Road' Trailer: Apocalyptic Disasters Have Really Messed Up Our Roads

This story makes my stomach feel like i gotta shit. Oh a @ 2, you're stupid, i hate you

The book affected me gravely, even before I knew Oprah had anything to do with it. I hope the film adaptation holds up well.

I've never read it, but it sounds pretty bleak and unflinching. I hope they keep that in the film.

FOR FRODO!!!!!!!!

it's an amazing book.
so if everything goes well...

Watch the trailer without audio. You can tell it's going to be a crappy movie.

LOL @ 2:03 when they use the greatest sound effect of all time

@8
hahaha
TIEFIGHTERS!

This movie is just an excuse to get Viggo back into that manly beard he was sporting during LotR.

The only times Cormac talked about the woman in The Road (Char Lease The Ron) was to mention boobs and death.

@10 - Ha. I can see a movie executive saying "We gotta get Viggo back into his beard! LOTR made Billions!"

My understanding is that NONE of that news crap at the beginning of the trailer is in the movie. Also Ms. Theron is apparently in the trailer more than she is in the movie, because (non spoiler if you've read the book or articles about the movie) she's dead before the story begins!

I think the trailer portrays the movie as something completely different than what it is.

I'm surprised that Harvey Weinstein doesn't seem to know how to market this film correctly.

If they are true to the book, it will be awesomely depressing. There will be large groups of people that hate it. I've been waiting on this book since last summer, so I'm glad they are finally releasing it.

My prediction: it will be hated by the mainstream, loved by the critics and become a cult classic through time.

I loved this book. This looks really promising, plus it has Viggo Mortensen, so that's a plus. I have high hopes.

I really enjoyed this book...the trailer makes the movie look "ok" i think.

If anyone can do it, Viggo can, but when reading this I found myself wondering how in the world to film it. If, as others have pointed out, they resorted to including the wife far more than the book and trying to explain the apocalypse (why?! WHY?) and making it super actiony and giving it a sickly sweet ending (please no), then I will be saddened. But not the least bit surprised.

From the trailer, one thing I already wish for is less color. That landscape was bleak, but not nearly bleak enough. McCarthy wrote you into a colorless nightmare of pure lifelessness.

LOL @ gurgl

Damn. I gotta read that shit.

Also, Viggo Mortenson is cast out of granite, rust, and testosterone. You could shred leather on that beard.

@9, dumbass thats not a tie fighter.
its the begining of Wilhelm Scream.
wikipedia it.

If they stay true to the book, then it will make a pretty boring movie. Part of the large impact of the book was the vocabulary used to describe the environment that the father and son are surrounded by throughout the entire story.

The feeling of bleakness and sorrow comes from the written account of what is all around them. It will take an AWESOME act of cinemetogrophy to truly capture that same all ecompassing feeling of loss and destruction.

The fact that they are incorportating a lot more backstory and going so far as to give the wife ANY role at all, leads me to believe they are NOT going to the the book justice.

They are going to focus on the few points in the book where the Father and Son had conflict/interaction with other survivors etc.. Which will give more
'action' to the movie, but will destroy what the book was trying to convey.

Part of the impact from the book came from the fact the NO back story was given at all. We had no idea why or how things got to be the way they were.

Simply put and to be fair to those making this movie, accuratley translating this book to film would create an extremely boring movie..

i can see what you guys are talking about, i havent read the book, i can imagine being like the begining of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, just wide landscape shots no dialogue, hell it didnt even have a score laid over it.

and i didnt see any of that here.

We like these kinda movies. . . Boo!

I don't know how he pulled it off, but Viggo obviously has the one ring in 2:08. Being invisible would have made hiding from cannibals so much more easy. This trailer has got me worried. I was really looking forward to a movie based off this book. Especially with Viggo in it, but the trailer feels completely wrong. If the movie is really that fast-paced and goes into deep explanations about how this apocalypse came about I am going to be disappointed.

Remember, trailers don't always equate well to the movie. Often you'll see scenes in a trailer that don't appear in the movie at all.

I read a few articles months back about how the production crew spent a lot of time just trying to get the setting right. I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt.

Like someone said above, this is gonna be bleak as shit if they do it right. I wouldn't have it any other way!

If you pay attention to the scenes with the mother, they're *all* in the house at (presumably) the beginning of the movie. She isn't present in any of the traveling / action scenes at all.

I'm guessing she dies in the first 20 minutes.

OMAR LITTLE LIVES!!

(The book was fan-fucking-tastic, but I honestly can't see how a film adaptation can live up to it. Do yourself a favor and pick-up a copy.)

2012, look out here we come! Looks like viggo and charlize meets mad max on the way to Sanctuary. I'd watch these two read a phone book.

I loved the book. In the book you have no idea what the event was that caused all of this destruction, and Charlize can be in more than just the beginning of the movie, because the characters think about her a lot, so I am sure there is going to be a lot of flashbacks.
The book was definitely one of the scariest things I have ever read.

The begining of the trailer is not in the book. There is none of that destruction. The book starts off After all that happened. Also, The wife's character kills herself and is only in the book for a few pages. Furthermore, there are no groups of people hunting them the whole time. The book mentions a few run ins with unfriendly groups. But nothing like a book long chase.

This is ultimately a father/son story. Obviously they are trying to make it more mainstream by showing the wife throughout the trailer, but if you read the book she is simply not a main character, at all.

No luck staying true to the book, but hey they tried. I am still going to see it.

This looks absolutely wretched. The effects are dated, the Hollywoodized story seems to shit all over the face of McCarthy's brilliant work, and there's no way I'm going to bother seeing it.

if you haven't read the book but plan to see the movie....maybe see the movie first...b/c the book will definitly spoil it for you.

I love post apocalyptic books and movies but that was a damn good book so it'll be hard for the movie to live up to it. I'll still see it though.

The one thing i'm not sure how they are going to pull off well in the movie would be the sort of dialog used in the book...The trailer makes "the road" out to be an action packed apocalyptic son and daddychase 'n shootout. In the book, half the darkness and bitterness was not created through description, but rather-the lack of it. Bleak....
When I heard they were coming out with a movie, my expectations were sorta along the lines of the same lack-of-dialog that is rampant in movies such as Castaway (though that is a horrible comparison).
This is a movie that could be really spectacular with the extensive use of Ambient sound with little dialog, along with those sort of slower-darker action scenes, not the born ultimatum sort of stuff i'm getting an impression of so far with this trailer. :/

@18...... dummy thats not the Wilhelm scream, its the Howie scream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBXkfb7Ok0o&feature=related

First off there are spoilers below if you haven't read the book.

I think everyone who is bashing the film right out of the gate should back it off a bit. First of the the scenes they show in the trailer with the wife could very well be the only ones in the film which would be fairly accurate as to how many times she is mentioned in the book.

I also support was Abracadabra was saying in that so much of the volume of the book was used to describe their surroundings. With that being substituted by a camera there are obviously going to be voids that need to be filled to make a feature length film. These voids probably being filled by possibly a few more scenes with the mother, some back story as to what happened, and maybe some made up action scenes. Although I have to say there was only one scene I didn't recognize in the trailer and that was the one with everyone running after them.

The scene where he shoots the guy in the woods early on in the book was in there. The scene when he gets shot in the leg with the bow and he fires the flare gun in to the house was in there. The scene with Omar from The Wire was the scene when they return to their cart to find it missing and track the guy down I believe.

So to sum up I think the movie deserves a fare shake although I do agree there is no chance of it even coming close to moving people as well as the book did.

Did they have to replace the nuclear attack with this "Day After Tomorrow" bullshit about climate change? Why?

SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK

^the book never says nuclear attack and all of the events in the book and the events shown in the preview are possible (probable?) effects from a massive volcanic eruption, also the events in the preview are possible (probable?) effects from a nuclear winter.

my main problem with the trailer is not enough ash. the thing about the book which struck me the hardest was the ash "snow" that was always falling.

my final negative thing to say about this is it should be in black and white or at least mute the color for the entire movie (except for the 1 flashback which happens before the apocalypse).

as for the good parts: assuming the preview shows every scene with the wife and every/most of the action scenes (done to pull in the action crowd) then the movie should stick fairly close to the book.

and as for the cheesy ending people are afraid will be tacked on to the end of the movie: the book did end with one of the cheesiest endings from any story ever (even though it fits considering the innocence of the son).

Please read this amazing book. It is truly one of the grimmest stories out there. You should know that the wife is not in the book; her place in the family ended long before the book starts. It's just the man and the son. No names.

I would have read the book if: Frickin Oprah hadn't endorsed it... she thinks she's so special and feels the need to let the world know which books she approves of. She wouldn't want her Oprahbots reading anything unruly, now would she? And the author doesn't use proper grammar; no quotation marks because he feels he's special enough to be outside the rules of grammar. That's two people that think they're special...