Trailer For The Road Has Bullets, Explosions, and Lots of Gray
The trailer for The Road (based on the book by Cormac McCarthy) is available at Apple Trailers. Having read the book recently, it’s not exactly what I was expecting.
I read The Road in February, in hopes that the movie would get a release date soon. It was very good, but I remember thinking, “if they make a faithful adaptation, it will be the most depressing movie ever.”
Based on the trailer, it looks like the filmmakers dealt with this (at least partially) by playing up any action scenes in the book. Sometimes this works well for adaptations and sometimes it destroys the heart of the work.
I’m also wondering what they did with the story’s end. I don’t think that they need to be 100% faithful to the book to have a good ending, but it will have to be strong to make the rest of the movie work.
The Road (currently) has a release date of October 16, 2009.