Finding the perfect location for a post apocalyptic story like Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Road” can be tough. Director John Hillcoat wanted a real location, not a digital landscape added in post-production. So the production turned to Pittsburgh, which from Hillcoat’s description sounds ideal; “…in winter, it [Pittsburgh] 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.” (Hillcoat was also pointed out that the city is quite beautiful during the fall.) The film utilizes abandoned city blocks, an abandoned amusement park and a closed 8 mile span of highway. Additional scenes of destruction were shot in New Orleans and on Mount St. Helens.
“it’s really about protecting your child, no matter what the circumstances” says Viggo Mortensen. Mortensen plays a father who, with his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), make there way across a desolate country side ravaged by a terrible disaster. The film also stars Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce.
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