"The Road" Film - Interview with the director

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"The Road" Film - Interview with the director

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<p>The film website <a href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienew ... oon.net</a> recently sat down with <em>The Road</em> Direcor <strong>John Hillcoat</strong> to talk about his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post apocalyptic novel. Here are some highlights:</p>
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<p><em><strong>CS: I was wondering how much time you had with Cormac through the whole process.</strong>
<strong>Hillcoat:</strong> None until we were in pre-production and that was right from the first conversation, he was absolutely brilliant, because he released a huge burden and weight from my shoulders, where he immediately just said, "Look, I understand a book's a book, a film's a film, totally different mediums and away you go."</em></p>
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<p><em><strong>CS: Were most of the visual influences taken from the book or did you have other things you wanted to bring into it?</strong>
<strong>Hillcoat:</strong> We kind of went off on a slight tangent, but it was all inspired from the book, like the fact that he's pushing all his possessions in a shopping trolley led us to the homeless. That defined the wardrobe. My production designer and I--our references weren't other films--we had actual photos of locations that were like a small apocalypse in themselves. The world felt familiar in some way even though it's so extreme. I think there's that and the other slight digression was the flashbacks. We wanted to make a little more of the flashbacks and make the wife a little more empathetic in terms of understanding her position and her choice.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>CS: Were those flashback scenes shot very early on or much later in the shoot?</strong>
<strong>Hillcoat:</strong> We started in the winter and then we went to Oregon and actually some of it was shot in New Orleans when they were doing their post-Katrina cleanup. It's still going on.

<strong>CS: Some of the scenes with the boats, that was shot down there?</strong>
<strong>Hillcoat:</strong> Yeah, yeah. Actually the boats, it's literally sourced from a 70mm IMAX shoot. That shot was filmed two days after Katrina hit. What we did then was get the CGI to put in... because there was a blue sky and bright sun and green grass so we replaced all that, but the actual boats and all the debris, it's all real.</em></p>
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<p>You can read the <a href="http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienew ... 761">whole interview here</a>. The film opens next Wednesday, 25 November, in the US and staggared release dates in Europe starting with France on 2 December. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/releaseinfo">Check here</a> to see when it will be released in your country.</p>
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