On the Road.

"What’s moving and shocking about McCarthy’s book is that it’s so believable.' Mr. Hillcoat said. 'So what we wanted is a kind of heightened realism, as opposed to the "Mad Max" thing, which is all about high concept and spectacle. We’re trying to avoid the clichés of apocalypse and make this more like a natural disaster.'" Also in movie news, the NYT checks in with the filming of John Hillcoat's The Road, based on the book by Cormac McCarthy and starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as father and son respectively, along with Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, and Michael Kenneth ("Omar") Williams. I mean, it kinda figures that Omar would've survived the Apocalypse.