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The long, hard road to disaster film utopia

It’s been a long hard road for Australian director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic post-apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’. Faced with multiple production setbacks and numerous release switch-ups, Hillcoat overcomes them all, turning in a refreshingly new take on the disaster film. Minus the disaster.

The long, hard road to disaster film utopia

It’s been a long hard road for Australian director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic post-apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’. Faced with multiple production setbacks and numerous release switch-ups, Hillcoat overcomes them all, turning in a refreshingly new take on the disaster film. Minus the disaster.

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The long, hard road to disaster film utopia

It’s been a long hard road for Australian director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic post-apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’. Faced with multiple production setbacks and numerous release switch-ups, Hillcoat overcomes them all, turning in a refreshingly new take on the disaster film. Minus the disaster.