The Road - First listen to Nick Cave's soundtrack

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In this four minute report over at BBC4, arts correspondent Rebecca Jones manages to talk to screen writer Joe Pehnall, play an interview clip with the author of The Road himself, Cormac McCarthy, and most importantly of all play a portion of music that Australian rocker Nick Cave wrote for the film.

This is the first time a single note of the score has been heard outside of a few early screening rooms so check it out. It's haunting, simple, perfect. Still no word on the actual release date of the film but Jones does confirm that the film is finished.

Can't wait to see this film. The book was brilliant.

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The Road - Photos from movie based on Cormac McCarthy's novel

USA Today have some photos from The Road. A movie based on the book by Cormac McCarthy. It's set in America after a nuclear winter has set in and follows a father and son travelling down a deserted road trying to get to the coast. All they have are the clothes on their back, a pistol and some food.

The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee was shot in Pittsburgh, New Orleans and on Mount St. Helens in Washington state for scenes of devastation.

"It's tangible, the misery and hopelessness and the bleakness," Mortensen says. "It gives you much more to work with if you're filming in that world instead of a green screen."

Sounds like a bundle of laughs, but I've heard really good things about the book and Mortensen is a solid actor. Think I'll be picking up the book.

The Road is directed by ex-music video director John Hillcoat, of The Proposition. The screenplay was adapted by Joe Penhall, of Some Voices, Enduring Love, and The Undertaker and is based on Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name first published in 2006. The Road hits in November 2008

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