... studio is a much harder leap. Q. Where did you shoot? John Hillcoat: We used Pennsylvania for the abandoned freeways and the deciduous ... adapting the screenplay with Joe Penhall. How did you go about deciding how to do that? John Hillcoat: Well, the theme of loss for The Man, and having to hide ... child actor, Kodi Smit-McPhee? John Hillcoat: Well, that was my single greatest fear with Viggo. ...

... to start your year, Director John Hillcoat’s (The Road) upcoming film, The Promised Land, ... production diary published in the UK tabloid The Telegraph, here is Hillcoat’s lament: My own new project - with a much-loved script ... Adams in the cast.  As we previously report, Adams was out, but it is depressing that Hillcoat has to kick off 2010 this way.  However, as The Playlist reports, ...

The New Year isn't starting off wonderfully for John Hillcoat. The director has been writing a cinematic diary for The Road over at the Telegraph, and in ... the story of some Depression-era bootleggers was sure to be something worth checking out. (Remember The Proposition?) Unfortunately, as Hillcoat notes, there's little room these days between the lowest of indies and the big blockbusters ...

... "Man" (Viggo Mortenson) early on in John Hillcoat's The Road, the too faithful film adaptation ... in 2006, so when I got to see the movie last week, I had high expectations. Hillcoat effectively recreated the Man's action-packed ... doesn't have time for that kind of narrative momentum, Hillcoat tends to dwell on the relationship between the Man and his son, which tends to make the ...

The New Year isn’t starting off wonderfully for John Hillcoat. The director has been writing a cinematic diary for The Road over at the Telegraph, and in an epilogue, Hillcoat revealed that his upcoming all-star cast project “has fallen apart.” The project in question is The Wettest County in the World, which had since

John Hillcoat’s gripping adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel The Road opens in the UK today. You must go see this film. The Road has already been longlisted in nine categories for the BAFTAs, including Best Direction, production design, cinematography and leading actor (Viggo Mortensen). A strong opening will be important for also giving the

... . but, again, i haven't read the book, so i feel foolish trying to talk about all that. but if Hillcoat wasn't brutally faithful to the material, i certainly wouldn't have guessed; The Road doesn't even pull its punches when it could get away with it, and Hillcoat brings a wonderfully lyrical tone that lets emotion assert itself without breaking up the ...

John Hillcoat's latest film, The Promised Land, has been cancelled and he's none too pleased about it. In fact he says that Hollywood is falling apart ... economy, Internet downloads (presumably the legal ones) and the old perennial favourite, piracy. Apparently Hillcoat says that there are few films in development, and those that are fall into one of two categories, very low budget or huge 3- ...

... moments. It's hard to find anything particularly wrong with the way that Hillcoat stages the scene. He's faithful to the tone of ... sensations are built right in to the machinery of movies, making Hillcoat's fairly evocative realization of a world ... of curlicue plotting. Instead, they just belong on the page instead of on the screen. John Hillcoat gave The Road his best effort. It's ...

Year: 2010 Director: John Hillcoat Screenplay: Joe Penhall Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi ... final scenes, which are so close to my imagination it feels like director John Hillcoat opened my brain and rummaged through my skull to ... to install in life lessons. To make sure this is communicated as thoroughly as possible, Hillcoat has placed his faith in the hands of the the experienced method actor that ...

... cold weather ( - 15 degrees) to go watch The Road, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy&# ... complaint. One reviewer claims that the virtue of Hillcoat's rendition of the story lies in its being more direct ... question "are you man enough to take it?"). But what matters is that Hillcoat/McCarthy is not in the business of providing us with yet another "what if...." ...

John Hillcoat has not had a good 12 months. First, The Road was plucked from the 2008 campaign and moved to 2009. That ... the film would have been shredded in '08. Now comes news that Hillcoat won't be directing the adaptation of The Wettest Country in ... , and Michael Shannon - but The Playlist grabbed a quote from Hillcoat's production diary from The Road in which the director calls ...

... : The Road should have never been adapted into a film. Directed by the very talented John Hillcoat, who dealt with similarly raw, spare material in ... have been brilliantly adapted before and they will be brilliantly adapted again. I am even willing to admit that Hillcoat is the perfect filmmaker for this adaptation and that he does as well with this adaptation as anyone ever could have. But based on ...

... cheap humor. So it's something of a minor miracle that director John Hillcoat's latest film, The Proposition, manages ... beautifully rendered moment of revelation for Madeleine, and for the audience as well. -- John Williams Half Nelson ($2.6 million): ... that's enough of an accomplishment to keep you watching even during the flat spots. -- John Williams Primer ($500,000): In creating a ...

... moving. The film also stars Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), John Doman and Faith Wladyka. The movie was originally set to ... Heath Ledger. Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance: John Hillcoat’s Next Courting Amy Adams for Female ... The Beast, Love, Starsuckers LaBeouf and Gosling Join John Hillcoat’s Next, The Wettest County in the World…Maybe Shutter Island Movie Trailer #3: Now ...