Hillcoat Directs The Road..

[Orang Utan]

I'm starting to get nervous now

Wondering where the massive fuck up will come from.....they'll cast Hayley Joel-Osmont as the kid or something....

It's already been filmed, you silly

 

[Orang Utan]

trailer here...



says directed by Jeffrey Brice

This trailer is a trailer for a student film. This trailer is in no way a promotional tool to increase revenue. As it is a student film, it is non-profit, and thus is just for youtube viewers

 

[Pieface]

It's already been filmed, you silly

oh...!

 

[sojourner]

sniggers

 

[Artie Fufkin]

This trailer is a trailer for a student film. This trailer is in no way a promotional tool to increase revenue. As it is a student film, it is non-profit, and thus is just for youtube viewers

ah, so it is

 

[Pieface]

sniggers

 

[Sunspots]

*bump*

Nick Cave on The Road:

"I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but... it was pretty much locked off, everyone was pleased they'd done something radical and exciting, then they showed it to one of these test screenings – 100 random punters – and it scored a low mark. Some people thought it was a little depressing or something." Isn't it set after the apocalypse? "Exactly. So there was a complete panic, an attempt to recut it and all sorts of stuff." Including the music? "No. Our music was lauded and applauded all the way through."

'Recut'... -To be expected to an extent, I suppose. But still...

My hopes remain high for this film though.

 

[Sunspots]

IMDB says 16 January 2009 in the UK.

The release date's slipped. Currently looking more like March at the earliest.

*drums fingers*

 

[Maltin]

Here is the trailer.

 

[El Jefe]

i'm praying really hard that the reason the trailer seems like an absolute betrayal of what the film should be like is because the studio cut it that way.

 

[Dandred]

i'm praying really hard that the reason the trailer seems like an absolute betrayal of what the film should be like is because the studio cut it that way.

Why do you have two active user names?

E2a fixed thanks to some pretty amazing modding by Crispy

 

[The Groke]

Here is the trailer.

Oh.






It went from The Day After Tomorrow to Mad Max 3 via nothing much.

It should be all still and quiet and washed out: greys and sepias and stillness and stuff, with just a few sinister notes creeping in and long, soft, drawn-out wailing Cave music.

Oh.

 

[Sunspots]

What... have... they... done... with... it!!?

That trailer's not really how I ever imagined it.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

The trailer had the classic '3 sec clip - noise - fade to black - 3 sec clip - noise - fade to black - 3 sec clip - noise - fade to black' stuff all teaser trailers have.

I don't think they will be able to resist having end of the world special effects etc. And I read there is quite a bit more of the mother in it. But unless everyone moves Mexico as in The Day After Tomorrow I can't see how this won't be as terrifying as the book.

They must be faking everyone out with a bobbins action flick trailer... I like the idea of the kids at the drive in leaving thourghly depressed and feeling very guilty about chucking away the popcorn..

 

[steveo87]

I read for the rather nerdy idea that it would get me in the mood for fallout 3 (obv. this is back in October).

But never in all my life has there ever been a book that just 'stays' with you. It almost becomes more than just a book, that is to say that you read a book finish it and then put it down, but this one 'lives' with you, right at the front of your mind and then never really leaves.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I read for the rather nerdy idea that it would get me in the mood for fallout 3 (obv. this is back in October).

But never in all my life has there ever been a book that just 'stays' with you. It almost becomes more than just a book, that is to say that you read a book finish it and then put it down, but this one 'lives' with you, right at the front of your mind and then never really leaves.

Agreed. I get freaked out every time I open a tin now.

 

[El Jefe]

Why do you have two active user names?

i don't and i never have. so cock off

 

[The Groke]

Ok.

Interesting pre-release review from Esquire here.

Seems frothing with praise enough to elict much , but one bit in particular did very much catch my eye:

When Bob Weinstein rolls those trailers, each one assumes the predictable arc of a story compressed to its essence. There is a speed to them that the actual movie — which I saw before seeing the trailers — does not possess or seek to possess, an urgency that feels manufactured. The music is pulse-pounding and urgent, driven to create absurd expectations of action in a movie that quietly elicits worry about the relative friability of the invisible paths that exist between people and what they need. Still, every utterance, every cry for help or hand clasped across the mouth of the boy to suppress a sob, is a fair-enough emanation from the heart of the movie.
The odd thing is, the start of each trailer includes glimpses of a storm, panicky news footage, little puzzle pieces of the world before it ended. No one — not the director or the myriad producers, not the novelist or the screenwriter — had ever even hinted at how it happened, until this.
For someone who loves the book, for anyone who knows the story going in, this is a moment you hoped would never come. Why remind us of the reductive logic of cause and effect? Before the question can be asked, Weinstein stands up, offers his hand, and says, "Okay, we're going with the first one." He gives no rationale. And so it seems the metonymic references to the national news, to the weather, to presumed military conflicts laid in as a tonally quiet explanation of what is never known in book or movie, for now will stay in the trailer.

So it seems that the trailer is potentially misleading, especially as the completely superfluous expositional sequences of The World In Turmoil! do not actually appear in the movie according to this reviewer.


I am still not getting my hopes up, but maybe the trailer is a bit of a red herring...

 

[8den]

I am still not getting my hopes up, but maybe the trailer is a bit of a red herring...

You've got to admit the idea of a boy and his dad travelling across a barren wasteland with a shopping cart isn't going to be a winner for most people. A trailer is designed to sell as movie to as many people as possible.

 

[El Jefe]

You've got to admit the idea of a boy and his dad travelling across a barren wasteland with a shopping cart isn't going to be a winner for most people. A trailer is designed to sell as movie to as many people as possible.

i get that which is why I haven't given up hope, but there's stuff in the trailer (buildings being blown up etc) which isn't in the book, but presumably must be in the film?

 

[8den]

i get that which is why I haven't given up hope, but there's stuff in the trailer (buildings being blown up etc) which isn't in the book, but presumably must be in the film?

Well the wife is a much more prominent in the trailer. I presume all that stuff could be in the preamble or pre credits.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Ooh this book sounds good from the extract Jefe posted. I love a good bit of bleak.

 

[El Jefe]

Ooh this book sounds good from the extract Jefe posted. I love a good bit of bleak.

it's the darkest book i think I've ever read. It left me in a fucking sorry state for a couple of days, seriously

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I've found an e-version, but I hate reading on the screen. Might go and purchase it tomorrow.

 

[The Groke]

but presumably must be in the film?

Well the wife is a much more prominent in the trailer. I presume all that stuff could be in the preamble or pre credits.

Or, like the other bits mentioned in the review above; not in the film at all.

I do find that pretty weird.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I'm a bit sick of 'after the apocalypse' stuff, but seeing as people are rating it so highly I'll definitely read the book then watch the film

(Actually I think the other way round tends to be less disappointing )

 

[El Jefe]

I've found an e-version, but I hate reading on the screen. Might go and purchase it tomorrow.

to be fair, i was signed off work depressed. one night, i couldn't sleep, got up, picked it off the shelf, read it cover to cover in 3 hours and then sat on the sofa sobbing or simply catatonic for another 3 hours.

maybe you should try a different approach

 

[beeboo]

I'm not too worried about the trailer, in that it does look like a clumsy attempt to package it up to be an easy-sell to audiences.

What's more worrying is that the powers-that-be connected with the film are willing to package it up in that way. Coupled with the earlier quote from Nick Cave about there being changes as a result of pre-screenings makes me worry that the same influence may make it's mark on the film.

 

[Biffo]

Finished reading this last night. Can’t say I enjoyed it but was compelled to finish it as quickly as possible to
a) Know what happened; and
b) Get it out the way.

Great book.

To be honest I don’t know if I want to see the film.

 

[Sunspots]

*bump*

Finally, a proper release date! -Well, another one, anyway...

In the UK: 13th November. (16th October in the US.)

(-I'm guessing they're saving it 'til that late in the year now largely for Oscar nomination reasons?)