Hillcoat to direct apocalyptic nightmare "The Road"

Australian director John Hillcoat is eyeing up American author Cormac McCarthy's new book The Road to direct into a feature film. His last feature was the low budget western The Proposition which garnered attention from critics if nothing else. More info from Coming Soon... "The Road," set after a nuclear explosion, is the post-apocalyptic nightmarish road trip of a man who tries to transport his son to safety while fending off starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals. I like the sound of this flick, I think it's why I like zombie movies so much because they show the absolute nightmare terror of what a post-apocalyptic world looks like. Expect this feature to be quite low budget which will probably be a blessing to the film, as it can stick to telling a tight and claustrophobic survival story of a father and son without having to worry about great special effects shots to depict what is going on in the rest of the world. source - variety, coming soon