Synopsis
The Road
$15.99
Published by Methuen
Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006
Joe Penhall's adaptation is a faithful, careful crafting of the book for the screen, fully evoking the atmosphere of menace and desperation
The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth poisoned, barren and hostile
While ash blocks out the sun and the earth no longer fosters plant or animal life, men either starve or join the maruading gangs of cannibals
The plot follows an unnamed father and son on a bleak epic across the wasteland and features a series of horrifc encounters in a merciless world starved of life and hope
This screenplay also includes a Q&A with Joe Penhall and full cast and crew credits