Our reviews of The Road now up on the main site – weird book that none of us particularly enjoyed, but all thought was extraordinary. I'm not sure I would want to see the film – it's not that I like the images that are now in my head from having read the book, but I would prefer to keep them as mine, rather than somebody else's, which is what I think would happen if I saw the movie. Although as I already knew Viggo Mortensen was playing the part of The Man, The Road for me was slighty hampered by my vision of Aragorn, struggling through a blasted wilderness.
Turns out McCarthy is notorious for his refusal to give media interviews, but he did open up for Oprah…