Nice piece here about the filming of Cormac McCarthy’s excruciatingly grim Pulitzer Prize-winning post-apocalyptic masterpiece The Road.

For the crew that has just finished filming the movie version of “The Road” — a joint production of 2929 and Bob Weinstein’s Dimension Films, set to open in November — that meant an upending of the usual rules of making a movie on location. Bad weather was good and good weather bad. “A little fog, a little drizzle — those are the good days,” Mark Forker, the movie’s director of special effects, remarked one morning in late April while the crew was shooting some of the final scenes in the book on a stretch of scraggly duneland by the shore of Lake Erie here. “Today is a bad day,” he added, shaking his head and squinting.

Special guest appearance by Michael Kenneth Williams!

The Road is due this November and will hopefully be as beautiful, disturbing, terrifying, and soul-crushing as the book.

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