This Is Interesting

Last January, I suggested that Guy Pearce would be a perfect choice to play the father character in the film version of of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Well, it looks like that is what's going to happen:

Not too long ago, Viggo Mortensen told MTV that he was in talks to play the lead in the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Since then, ShockTillYouDrop has learned that Guy Pearce will be playing the character. The story concerns a father and son traveling through a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of violent cannibals. So unless Pearce is playing Viggo's son, there's not much room for both of them in this picture.

Mortensen would have been a good choice as well, but Pearce is skinnier so he'd probably be more believable in the role because the main characters are starving. Another actor who would have been good as the dad is Christian Bale, but he's starved himself twice already (for Rescue Dawn and The Machinist) and doing so again would probably risk his life.

This will be a tough book to adapt to the big screen. I'm very interested to see what they come up with.