THE ROAD Gets Theatrical Release Date

Geez, finally! I’ve been waiting for this info and it has now arrived! One of the best books I’ve read in my whole life is Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD. Seriously guys, if you haven’t read it, then you’re missing out on what could possibly be the saddest, most thrilling, and touching stories you’ve ever encountered. The movie version starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron was supposed to be released last year but the post-production took forever and they weren’t ready with their work and so it got postponed to this year as a potential Oscar contender. That decision somewhat pissed me off but I figured if they needed some more time to make this movie perfect, then so be it.

And now, via Bloody-Disgusting, Dimension Films has announced the theatrical release date for THE ROAD and it will hit theaters on October 16th, 2009.
Competition’s gonna be pretty tough because Spike Jonze’s adaptation Where The Wild Things Are is released on the same weekend.
I wonder what it would’ve been like if THE ROAD were released last year instead? Would Slumdog Millionaire have a fighting chance? I guess we’ll never know.
THE ROAD is the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world