Last Night I was treated to a screening of the work in progress cut of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Having devoured the book in one sitting when I first got it, I have been pumped about this movie since I heard about it. It does not disappoint. Fans of the book will find a very strict adaptation, all of your favorite depraved apocalyptic scenes are there. Unfortunately they do add a few more scenes of The Wife, which are all and all not bad but in this cut there were probably about two minutes too many.

More review after the jump

This cut clocks in at almost exactly two hours, and somehow to me felt short. There is still plenty of cannibalism both implied and on screen despite the missing Baby BBQ scene. Viggo Mortensen totally nails The Man, and the newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee feels like an actual child, rather than a hollywood version of a kid. Robert DuVall as the Old Man is chilling. Deadwood fans will notice Molly Parker (Alma Garret) and Garret Dillahunt (Francis Wolcott\Jack McCall) in crucial roles.

The score by Nick Cave is very well done and hardly noticable, but when it needs to it comes more to the front and and crushes you.

For whatever reason there is still not a trailer for this film, but more information will be posted to from what I can tell, The offical website? will have it when it arrives.  For a movie coming out so soon there sure isn’t a lot of press.  The book was part of Oprah’s Book Club so I imagine the film will get my favorite secret lesbian’s push soon enough.

You can travel The Road November 14th, 2008 if you are in NY or LA.  The rest of you can wait till the 26th.