Your Kid Could Be Famous: Open Casting Call for The Road

Chris Garcia over at Austin360 has the scoop on an open casting call for the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Road.

They're looking for "white boys, ages 7-10, with a thin/slight build"—presumably this is to cast the role of the young son in the story, who accompanies his father (to be played by Viggo Mortensen) as they make their way across a ravaged post-apocalyptic America.

The casting call will take place on November 3 at the Clarion Inn & Suites, off I-35. Email Vicky Boone at call 512-786-6271 for more info.

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By Allen Y Chen in Arts & Entertainment on October 23, 2007 8:36 AM 0 Comments

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Joel Nihlean

This was a fantastic book. I am a little wary as to how Hollywood will handle this film. I pray that they don't butcher it by giving the characters names or adding anything superfluous that the "general American movie going population" would go for like a CGI zombie T-Rex or something.