Post-Apocalyptic Novel “The Road” Coming to Big Screen

The only thing I like more than a zombie movie is a post-apocalyptic movie. The ’80s was a great time for the genre, and yeah, while they were all pretty cheaply made and crappy, I love them nonetheless. The genre sort of lost favor in the ’90s, thanks in no small part to Kevin Costner, whose post-apocalyptic movies “The Postman” and “Waterworld” basically sealed the genre’s fate for good. Now Variety says that “The Road”, a novel by Cormac McCarthy about a father who transports his son to safety following a nuclear explosion and battles starving stragglers and marauding packs of cannibals in his way, is coming to the big screen, to be directed by John Hillcoat, director of the violent Australian western “The Proposition”.

Here’s an unexpected trivia about “The Road”: It was selected as one of Oprah Winfrey Book Club’s book of the month! And here I thought only chick books and fake novels about druggie journalists made the list.

Nuclear wars aren’t good for much, except the premise of a post-apocalyptic flick.

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