Viggo is starring as the father and Charlize is the mother. Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce are also appearing. Will this live up to the novel?

Unless Cormac McCarthy has retained some kind of creative control, I am afraid the movie will never live up to the book. I will wait until someone who has read the book tells me what they thought of the movie. I would hat to pay for a movie and then sit there picking it apart.

i agree. i didn't enjoy it on it's plot and dialogue alone. i liked it for its approach and style. it was one of those books i loved reading because the way it was written, not just what was going on therein.

I'm interested to see how well it translates.

I'm not going to automatically dismiss it as unadaptable, and I most likely will see it...true that it's not necessarily the dialogue or action that made the book so great, but there's a lot of interesting imagery that I'd like to see in film.

I'm concerned that they won't present the more blatantly disturbing parts of the book (ex: the scene with the...ahem...food in the basement) as faithfully as possible.

... or baby on a spit?

actually on imdb cast members are listed as 'well fed cannibal' and 'woman in basement', so they might go for it.

I thought it was very cinematic in the way it was written so it could translate well to the screen. I'm not crazy about the idea of the mother's part being made larger - she was just a wisp of a memory in the book, as she should've been, because it made the father and son's struggle and their relationship all the more poignant.

That being said, I think Viggo Mortensen is a great choice. Why Guy Pearce is getting such high billing is puzzling to me unless they've made that part larger too.

Good or bad, I loved the book so much I'm sure I'll see the film.

I dunno how much creative control he had, but the last McCarthy novel to be translated into a movie (No country For Old Men) was done superbly, so I'm holding out faith on this one.

I'm not sure I could see the baby and basement scenes on screen....reading it was hard enough. Book was great, but my stomach turns at the thought.

I figured this book, after all its critical praise, would be followed by a movie, but I'm worried that the screen won't be able to capture the emotional intensity and ethereal nature of the book. But No Country For Old Men turned out good, so we'll see.