Nick Cave (of Bad Seeds fame), has been tapped to score the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The film, directed by John Hillcoat (who also lensed Cave's writing debut, The Proposition), and starring Viggo Mortensen, has been in film release purgatory ever since it was handed to Miramax.
The book is phenomenal, and follows a father and son (think Lone Wolf here) as they traipse across the burnt carcass of a post-apocalyptic America. It's dystopic, but believable. McCarthy's sentences are curt, yet brutal, and the novel is absolutely harrowing.
Cave, who scored The Proposition, and the equally underrated The Assassination of Jesse James, has a knack for under-produced but nonetheless haunting scores. I'm hoping he combines what he did on Jesse with something like the nails-on-chalkboard sounds that Johnny Greenwood accomplished on last year's There Will be Blood.
Below are a few of my favorites.
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