"You think I come from another world, don't you? Filled with all these strange things you've never seen...Well I do, I guess." 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. Released shortly after his No Country for Old Men was turned into an Oscar-winning film, The Road's cinema version of the novel is directed by John Hillcoat, stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron and is an official selection for the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009. 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 edition includes a full list of cast and crew credits.
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Screenplay for the film version of Cormac McCarthy's hit novel The Road, adapted by award-winning playwright Joe Penhall.
'John Hillcoat's superb adaptation of the prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy leads its audience on a road to nowhere' : 'haunting, harrowing, powerful' Xan Brooks, The Guardian, 03.09.09 'Hillcoat's movie is a resounding triumph' Tom Huddleston, Time Out, 05.01.10 'The Road might just be one of the most heartfelt end-of-the-world movies yet made' : 'shockingly good at depicting that certain unspoken sadness that is the baseline of all parent-child relationships' Kevin Maher, The Times, 08.01.10
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The Road is an award-winning and popular novel, having gained both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. Penhall's 1994 play Some Voices was described as 'the most thrilling playwriting debut in years' by the Sunday Times. He has consistently lived up to and exceeded that early promise. 'More than any of his peers Penhall has shown a rare aptitude for confronting headline issues of the day, using his gift of the gab as a dramatist to interrogate their underlying complexities and contradictions' Daily Telegraph
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The Road is an award-winning and popular novel, having gained both the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama’s Screen and Cinema series features a selection of some of the most popular screenplays of recent years, including works by Stephen Poliakoff and Anthony Minghella. Students of Literature and Film Studies will also find plenty of material to support their courses in the range of Screen Adaptations titles, each of which examines the various screen versions of one of Shakespeare’s plays. Including excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and shooting scripts, each title in this series considers how the original text is adapted for the screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original work.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408127421
Publisert
2010-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Methuen Drama
Vekt
150 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
112

Biographical note

Award-winning writer Joe Penhall was described by The Financial Times as 'one of the finest playwrights of his generation.' His debut at the Royal Court, Some Voices, won the John Whiting Award for best new play. His National Theatre play Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Joe wrote and produced the BAFTA winning BBC serial Moses Jones and his feature film of Some Voices starred Daniel Craig and premiered in competition at the Cannes Film festival . This was followed by Enduring Love, also starring Daniel Craig, based on Ian McEwan's novel; and his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, starring Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.