Making-of featurette for post-apocalyptic thriller The Road now online
Charlize Theron circling female Road Warrior sequel lead role
According to E Online, Oscar-winner Charlize Theron is director George Miller’s choice to play the female lead in the upcoming long-in-development sequel to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max 4. However, original Road Warrior Mel Gibson apparently won’t be donning any leather this time around. When he announced that he would commence work on Mad ….
Release date for sci-fi thriller The Road gets pushed back
According to Sci-Fi Wire, The Road, the long-delayed film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, has been bumped again, this time to November 25th from its previous October 16th release spot, Dimension Films announced. No reason was given for the move of the John Hillcoat film, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, ….
Promotional posters and possible casting for Let the Right One In remake
/Film nabbed a nice series of conceptual posters for director Matt Reeves’ remake/adaptation of Let The Right One In. The series is described as promotional concepts used to sell the film in international markets. The U.S. version is to be set in the snow covered mountains of a Reagan-era Colorado, and is said to be ….
Trailer for long-delayed post-apocalyptic The Road
Speaking of post-apocalyptic movies, the trailer for The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s (No Country for Old Men) novel, has been released. The John Hillcoat-directed (The Proposition) film will finally be released on October 16, 2009, after sitting on the shelf for a bit.
The trailer with Viggo Mortensen as John Halder in Good
Just as the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie, readies for release, indie distributor THINKFilm prepares to release Good, which stars Viggo Mortensen as John Halder, a decent individual with family problems. He has a neurotic wife (Jodie Whittaker), two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances ….
Viggo Mortensen post-apocalyptic thriller and Kate Winslet Oscar hopeful release dates get dicey
According to The Hollywood Reporter, two highly anticipated films being distributed by The Weinstein Company are in jeopardy of being pushed to 2009. The first, Viggo Mortensen’s dark thriller The Road, which is being shuttled through the Weinstein’s Dimension unit, was originally was prepping for a November 14th 2008 limited opening and a November 26th ….
New photos from Appaloosa
I’ve posted a batch of new photos from Warner Bros. next western film, called Appaloosa, in the gallery. Oscar nominee Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises), four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Pollock), Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger (Cold Mountain) and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) star in the Western Appaloosa, adapted from the Robert ….