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Michael Merschel: Michael Merschel edits books coverage for The Dallas Morning News. November 2010
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Greetings, and it's great to be back in Dallas after spending a few days off in ... Dallas.  Associated Press But enough about me. Let's kick off the week in blogging with some idle gossip. Alert co-worker Jerry Bokamper points out that the movie adaptation of "The Road" is listed in "pre-production" on the Hollywood site imdb.com -- and the tentative cast is kind of eye-opening. Viggo Mortensen is cast as "father," while Charlize Theron is "wife." Now, one way of reading this is to assume that the producers have decided that the best way to make a marketable movie about an ash-covered, post-apocalyptic world of bleak emptiness is to fill the screen with really attractive people. I mean, if any couple could take the edge of a scene of baby-roasting cannibals, it would be those two. Right? But that's what worries me. Does casting a superstar like Theron in the role signal that the wife is getting a major profile boost in the translation from book to movie?  Associated Press Maybe they will throw in a few product placements for good measure. (FATHER [preparing to push shopping cart down a crumbling, danger-filled road that holds death at every turn and is a possible metaphor for life itself]: "They said life's better in a Jeep (r), son -- and it would be nice to have one on this road." ) Any thoughts? Or should we just wait for them to film the thing? Archived Comments |
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Well, Viggo would be great. But after seeing "Sweeney Todd" over the weekend, I have to nominate Johnny Depp for the dad. He does wounded, hopeless despair better than anyone. I can't even keep "Charlize Theron" and "The Road" in my head at the same time; it's too bizarre.
What about the kid? How about that little boy in "There Will Be Blood" -- Dillon Freasier? Although he might be a bit too old ...