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Director: John Hillcoat
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Studio: Dimension Films
A father (Mortensen) and son (Smit-McPhee) walk for months across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic landscape in search of civilization.
Once a victim of come-and-go release date hijinks, the question here remains: Can you mine another Cormac McCarthy novel for Oscar gold? We have to imagine that’s the plan here for McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, Oprah-endorsed tale of an unexplained cataclysm decimating life as we know it in the U.S. John Hillcoat (The Proposition) is a stellar pick to frame the father and son’s gritty survival instincts, and we can already see Viggo being positioned for a Best Actor nomination, but if this is intended to be an Oscar hopeful, we feel as though some of the novel’s most ghastly images — cannibalism is just the beginning, dear ones — will be sanitized (or maybe not, according to this report, though Charlize Theron’s character was given more of a backstory, as readers would image). Personally, we’re primed for Guy Pearce’s role …
