{"id":7432,"date":"2010-01-07T05:13:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2010-01-07T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:22:20","slug":"interview-joe-penhall-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/01\/07\/interview-joe-penhall-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Joe Penhall on The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joe Penhall<\/strong><\/a> is the screenwriter of\u00a0The Road<\/strong><\/a>, the new film adaptation of the best selling novel<\/a> by Cormac McCarthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it depicts the journey of a father (Viggo Mortensen<\/a>) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee<\/a>) as they struggle to stay alive in an America which has descended into savagery after an unspecified environmental and social collapse.<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0John Hillcoat<\/a>, who made the gritty Australian western The Proposition<\/a> (2005), it premiered at the Venice film festival last September and is eagerly awaited by many as the book won the Pulitzer prize for fiction, was endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and went on to become an unlikely bestseller.<\/p>\n

Joe came to\u00a0prominence as a playwright with\u00a0Blue\/Orange<\/a> and later penned the screenplay for Enduring Love<\/a> (2004) before being given the onerous task of translating the horrors and emotions of the novel into a film.<\/p>\n

I spoke with him in London recently about the film and you can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Joe_Penhall_on_The_Road.mp3]\n

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Road is <\/em><\/strong>out at UK cinemas on Friday<\/em><\/p>\n

>\u00a0Download the interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
>\u00a0Official UK site for The Road<\/a>
>\u00a0Joe Penhall<\/a> at the IMDb
> Read my review of the film<\/a>
>\u00a0Find out more about Cormac McCarthy<\/a> and the novel<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n

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