John Hillcoat

...the job of making the film of "The Road"? "Luckily, I was given the unpublished manuscript. Otherwise I wouldn't be here," John Hillcoat says humbly on a recent visit to Washington. "When it goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Oprah, and...

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MIAMI Halfway through the filming of "The Road," director John Hillcoat made a difficult decision: No matter what, he was going to remain faithful to Cormac McCarthy's novel, about a father and son traveling across a post-apocalyptic...

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...Mortensen's dirty, hairy (but still pretty) face rose up from the ashy grave of America, bringing McCarthy's "Man" to life in John Hillcoat's bleakly beautiful movie, I was torn between feeling sorry for my unaccompanied self and feeling...

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...first trailer used news footage of global destruction that isn't even in the film. "I wasn't very involved in that," director John Hillcoat says of the opening trailer. "All I will say is it's a tough sell, and I think it's a good strategy." A...

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...posed: Is "The Road" an unfilmmable book? Well, I love the book, and I've seen the film, and I'm here to tell you: Director John Hillcoat is no compromiser. This post-apocalyptic father-son travelogue - starring Viggo Mortensen and...

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...him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us. " McCarthy's 4 Missing Lines Director John Hillcoat remembers being "hit like a train" when he read a prepublication manuscript of Cormac McCarthy's bleak 2006 novel The Road.

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...dialogue, taking place in a world ravaged by an event - human-made? climatological? - unspecified by the author. Director John Hillcoat's film version, scripted by playwright Joe Penhall, constitutes an act of faithful adaptation. Yet...

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...simply as Man and Boy. "It just hit me like a freight train, emotionally, and I couldn't stop thinking about it," director John Hillcoat tells NPR's Steve Inskeep, describing his reaction to the Cormac McCarthy novel that inspired his film.

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...rather than a bang, but this month it will have ended with both onscreen. Just weeks after the release of the destruct-o-thon 2012, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's grim and muted postapocalyptic novel The Road hits theaters...

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Chris Knight, National Post Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 Macall Polay / 2929 / Dimension Films For director John Hillcoat, a budget of more than US$20-million would have been 'a waste of resources. ' When John Hillcoat sat down...

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