Here’s some more good news for those of us with hopes for the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bleak novel The Road. In an interview with the LA Times, Nick Cave has spoken about his current project of scoring the movie.
Nick Cave (and his Bad Seeds) have been around for 25 years, writing music that pitches between paranoiac, frenzied delusions, and tragic, desperate ballads, with an occasional break (e.g. his new Grinderman group) to rock out. His lyrics are polished and literary. But he has also delved into soundtracks, including the beautiful laments of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Cave has also worked with The Road director, John Hillcoat, before, providing music for and scripting the nasty Oz Western The Proposition (which is currently being remade for Hollywood) and Ghosts… of the Civil Dead.
With Cave’s reliable tunes, and Hillcoat’s direction, which so far has displayed a habit of never relenting from the disturbing, not to mention the book having been penned by the man behind this year’s Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, The Road is gearing up to be one of the highlights of the year.
Kenna McHugh said
September 21 2008 @ 12:38 pm
I am not so sure The Road will be a “highlight.” Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron star and the production stills look grim and bleak — typical of McCarthy yarns.
“Stand out” might be more in order for such a movie. No Country wasn’t necessarily a “highlight” but “stood out” as a well-made film to win kudos.
Keep in mind that the Coen brothers creative juices are in a different vein of expression than Hillcoat.
Perhaps, based on The Propostion, Hillcoat knows how to give freedom to creative people, so the end product is award winning.
Thus, I ask: Why didn’t Hillcoat win best director at the Australia Film Institute?
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