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We're fascinated by the music video for Willow Smith's song "21th Century Girl," in which she is in a post-apocalpytic wasteland... until she and her friends find an entire buried city, which they lift out of the sand using chains. More »
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Marvellous Hairy author Mark A. Rayner is holding a Photoshop contest to create vintage advertisements for futures that don't exist yet. Here's a small sampling of these retrofuturistic print pieces from both the current and past contests. More »
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Photographer Jim Lo Scalzo has captured the scorched earth beauty of America's coal country. In the photo montage "Ghosts in the Hollow," Scalzo navigates through fog, Centralia fumes, and old coal sluices. No wonder The Road was filmed out there. More »
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Someone builds a full-scale replica of Manhattan in Puget Sound. A mysterious organization plots to use humanity's brightest minds to shape the future. And in the distant future, humanity rebuilds after the apocalypse. Ryan Boudinot's next novel sounds trippily awesome. More »
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This concept art of a stranger, grittier Wizard of Oz depicts the Cowardly Lion as goth, the Emerald City as the setting for Left 4 Dead, and Dorothy as a smack addict. Poppies are a helluva drug. More »
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This was a year of extremes: huge CG-heavy spectacles and low-budget gems. Most of all, 2009 made us feel the boundaries of cinema were stretched... for good and ill. Here are the 10 best and 10 worst films of 2009. More »
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When you've survived a post-apocalyptic world of cannibals and evil gangs, there's nothing left to do but have a 1940s-style dance routine. For some reason, this sequence didn't appear at the end of The Road, so we're including it here. More »
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One important cannibal scene in the post apocalyptic film The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy's book, was cut. Here's why, along with how director John Hillcoat feels about his movie being compared to, and marketed as, "disaster porn." More »
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Whether or not you loved The Road, most people seemed to feel it captured Cormac McCarthy's novel. Sadly, most adaptations do violence to the original books, but not all. Here are 12 SF/fantasy adaptations that did right by the books. More »
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You might think it's odd that The Road and Ninja Assassin both came out just in time for Turkey Day. But those aren't the only counter-intuitive movies that studios have put out for Thanksgiving — here's a complete list. More »
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The vast, dying landscapes in The Road are edged with flame, telling a story of the world unmade in stark images. While the design in this film is eloquent, its characters aren't. What lurks beneath their silence? More »
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How do you keep your humanity in the face of death, cannibals and destruction? This 11 minute feature from The Road goes deep with Viggo Mortensen, using clips, interviews and analysis. Plus listen to three tracks from Nick Cave's soundtrack. More »
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Translating a book into film is hard, especially when it's Cormac McCarthy's simply-worded but powerful novel The Road. Director John Hillcoat told us what McCarthy refused to let him leave out of the movie version. More »
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A few new clips are out for Cormac McCarthy's The Road, giving you a glimpse into the lives of Viggo Mortensen's family before the apocalypse... and a taste of how quickly Viggo responds when the end is near. More »
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We've spent this week talking about horror in all its myriad forms: scary sex scenes, terrible monsters, and mental horrors. But some of the most haunting and terrifying horror stories aren't merely terrifying; they're also terribly sad. More »
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Thanksgiving will see you giving thanks that you're not living in the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, judging from the ultra-bleak new trailer. Takeaway message: the world is dying, and pleasant dreams mean you've given up on living. More »
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Michael Caine drops a huge Inception spoiler! Sam Raimi talks Venom! 2012's ending revealed! A Lost character's surprising new side! Spoilers are life-altering, and Star Trek 2, Supernatural, The Road, Twilight, Stargate, FlashForward and Fringe are embracing the spoiler lifestyle. More »
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Three great moments from 1985's post-apocalyptic Def-Con 4: Three astronauts watch a nuclear holocaust claim the entire world. A post-apocalyptic survivalist demands to know, in great detail, about the female astronauts nipples. And a teenager whips slaves dragging a space-capsule. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5382862&view=rss&microfeed=true The movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen, has already been delayed by over a year — but now it's facing yet another delay, from Oct. 16 to Nov. 25. Because cannibals and a ruined Earth are just what you need to gather the whole family around, for Thanksgiving... More »
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Delve into slapstick zombie violence with a Zombieland trailer, and witness Megan Fox's descent into ick in a Jennifer's Body TV spot. Super-spoilery Lost set reports, plus Hancock 2 details. Also: Road, Fringe, FlashForward, Smallville, Supernatural, Stargate and True Blood. More »
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In 9, deadly machines wipe out the human race and the only creatures left alive are... ragdolls? Okay. But those hempen freedom-fighters aren't necessarily the weirdest people to survive the apocalypse. Here are the top 10 most unlikely apocalyptic survivors. More »
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The days are already getting shorter and colder, which sounds like the ideal time to start considering spending evenings at your local multiplex, taking advantage of comfy chairs and large screens. But what movies should you see? Here's our guide. More »
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Ten minutes of new clips from "The Road" bring on the post-apocalyptic family bonding as a father and son flee scary truckers, evade cannibals, and eat cheetos in a bomb shelter. Also included are God talk and prayer. More »
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Three new TV spots look inside the Surrogates conspiracy, and the Dollhouse cast describes life after Alpha's attack. Also, the first reviews for The Road and Zombieland, and spoilers for Heroes, Supernatural, Eureka, Pandorum, Smallville, FlashForward, Warehouse 13 and Fringe. More »
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Well, ROACH has definitely not been a disaster, more on that below. But for now! It's Disaster Time. More »
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The trailer for the long awaited film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is finally out. Viggo Mortenson and his son look appropriately scruffy and ravaged, but too bad the trailer misrepresents the movie. More »
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The first official review of Cormac McCarthy's big screen adaptation of The Road has been released, full of praise for the soul-crushing work of John Hillcoat and Viggo Mortensen. More »
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Anyone here running a fever or a cough? How about just needlessly panicking? It's a Disaster!!!! More »
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After shoving Cormac McCarthy's big screen adaptation further and further down (ahem) The Road, it sounds like a release date has finally been set. Plus, we scavenged up new stills from the spirit-shattering film. More »
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The movie version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road still doesn't have a release date, months after it was supposed to come out. But at least concept artist Hugh Marchant's brilliant art has appeared online. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5222402&view=rss&microfeed=true Enjoy a taste indie god Nick Cave's musical compilation for the post apocalyptic move The Road. The BBC did a small special on Cormac McCarthy's adaptation onto the big screen, dubbing bits from his Oprah interview and here and there. But the best part: about 3:30 into the package, they debut some of Nick Cave's soundtrack for the movie. It's hauntingly beautiful and a bit melancholy, which will fit in quite nicely with the whole, "the world is a burned out shell of nothing and we're all going to die" theme from the movie. Thanks to Quiet Earth for finding this gem. [BBC] More »
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Today's spoiler ration includes your first look at iconic Star Trek props. Plus producers spill the beans for BSG and Supernatural. Viggo gets physical in The Road. Reaper video! Wonder Woman pics. Spoilers advance! More »
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Welcome to Black Friday. We've collected a shocking number of spoilers to fortify you before your shopping rampage. Including exactly what Keanu Reeves is up to in the Day The Earth Stood Still remake, and what Hugh Jackman says will happen in Wolverine 2. Plus, Geoff Johns totally gave away the identity of the villain who fights the Legion in an upcoming Smallville. Plus, we find out which dead Lost characters we'll be seeing again, what Jack gets up to in Torchwood, and just who might be dying in Heroes. All this, plus spoilers and pics from The Road, Transformers 2, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Eleventh Hour, Pushing Daisies, Stargate Atlantis, Kyle XY and Chuck. Spoilers are fortifying! More »
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The bleaker our reality gets, the more we'll need bright, sunny escapism in our entertainment. But even though things are already looking pretty darn hard-scrabble, and we're still looking at another few years of eco-disasters, zombie holocausts and blighted landscapes in pop culture. Just how long will we be seeing dark, miserable stories of people who descend into their own personal hells where morality is a forgotten luxury? A few more years, maybe. Blame the Hollywood development process. More »
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Bad news, Cormac McCarthy fans — The Road's movie adaptation, featuring scraggily Viggo Mortensen, has now been pushed back from its original soft release dates of Nov. 14 and Nov. 26 to "at least December." The Hollywood Reporter is stating that the apocalyptic movie may even be pushed into the new year. More »
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Cormac McCarthy's depressing, post-apocalyptic ash world in The Road isn't going to be any more cheerful in John Hillcoat's big screen adaptation. And the little survivalist details promise to be the parts that make the movie truly sick. So far we've only been introduced to one wanderer and the two main characters The Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and The Man (Viggo Mortensen). With only a month left before the movie hits theaters, a new crop of pics from a member of the cast has surfaced showing the most memorable characters of The Road thus far. Spoilers ahead. More »
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The man with saddest songs in the world is penning the score for the world's most depressing post-apocalypse flick: The Road. I can't imagine a musical mind more equipped to deal with the vast emptiness and hollow feeling that one gets from reading Cormac McCarthy’s novel on which the movie is based. In an interview with the LA Times, Cave gave an update on the production of The Road. More »
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