No CGI in THE ROAD

Those annoyed by Francis Lawrences' adaptation of I Am Legend and it's heavy use of CGI for a tale that could have been told in a claustrophobically small manner, will be happy to hear that director John Hillcoat has made it a point to have no CGI in his end of the world tale adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer prize winning novel The Road.

Speaking to the USA Today, Hillcoat says only the fictional story of a father and son who travel across a barren and apocalyptic countryside after a mystery catastrophe is made up, the scenery and settings are very real. They shot the film in Pittsburgh...

"It's a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing," Hillcoat says. "But in winter, it can be very bleak. There are city blocks that are abandoned. The woods can be brutal. We didn't want to go the CGI world." "We wanted the heightened reality in the book."

Opening in the U.S. on November 14th (January in the U.K), Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play the father and son, in a small role Charlize Theron plays Mortensen's wife and finally Robert Duvall makes up the core cast. I really did enjoy last year's I Am Legend but I would loved to have seen a smaller told story of Robert Neville, with far less CGI. Will I get this from The Road? source - coming soon