“The Road” Premiere Pushed Back Again

“The Road” just got a bit longer: The much-delayed film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer-winning post-apocalyptic sci-fi story has been bumped again, to Nov. 25 from its previous Oct. 16 release date.

The Road stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee with notable names in supporting performances given by Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron.

Synopsis: The world is in ruins after an apocalyptic event that is never described. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing: just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless cannibalistic bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a rusting shopping cart of scavenged food – and each other.