New Trailer for THE ROAD Starring Viggo Mortensen

by Matt Goldberg    Posted:October 30th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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The new trailer for John Hillcoat’s “The Road” is the clearest example yet that Dimension Films has absolutely no idea how to market this movie.  They’re trying to show the bleakness of the post-apocalyptic world and then show rousing hope as if to say, “Look!  You can see this movie on Thanksgiving weekend!  It’s a feel good movie!  It’s about the love between a father and son and you won’t even notice that most of the world is an empty wasteland populated with corpses.”  I’m looking forward to the film, but since I try not to read reviews for movies I haven’t seen I don’t know if the film is this schizophrenic or if it’s just the marketing.  I’m hoping it’s the latter.

Hit the jump to check out the trailer.  “The Road” opens on November 25th.


  • judge dredd
    Looks awesome! I just bought the novel of this, and am hoping to read it before i see the film, as ive heard great things about the book. I rarely read books, but this one seems intriguing.
  • Travis
    The book was fantastic, and the movie (from what I've seen) looks like it will be just as good. But I think it's a hard sell....
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