Posts with tag "the road"

Roasted Baby on Spit Was 'Too Much' for 'Road' Director

Posted Nov 25th 2009 at 04:58 PM by Bryan Alexander

Readers of Cormac McCarthy's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Road' remember it well -- the scene where the Man discovers a headless baby roasting on a spit, left by a fleeing bunch of cannibals. It's kind of a hard one to forget. But eat your Thanksgiving turkey without fear of losing it in the critically-lauded movie, as director John Hillcoat took that scene out of the final cut ...

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'Wire' Hero Michael K. Williams Loved Getting 'Viggo-tized' on 'The Road'

Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 06:00 PM by Bryan Alexander

Michael K. Williams might have a legion of hardcore fans (including a certain President of the United States) from his defining role as Omar in the epic series 'The Wire,' but that didn't stop him from being awed by working with Viggo Mortensen when shooting 'The Road.' "Come on, we've all been Viggo-tized before," Williams says of the 'Lord of the Rings' stud and 'Road' co-star. "He has that ...