Road

Award-winning writer Joe Penhall was described by The Financial Times as 'one of the finest playwrights of his generation.' His debut at the Royal Court, Some Voices, won the John Whiting Award for best new play. His National Theatre play Blue/Orange won an Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Award and the Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Joe wrote and produced the BAFTA winning BBC serial Moses Jones and his feature film of Some Voices starred Daniel Craig and premiered in competition at the Cannes Film festival . This was followed by Enduring Love, also starring Daniel Craig, based on Ian McEwan's novel; and his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel, The Road, starring Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.

'John Hillcoat's superb adaptation of the prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy leads its audience on a road to nowhere' : 'haunting, harrowing, powerful' Xan Brooks, The Guardian, 03.09.09 'Hillcoat's movie is a resounding triumph' Tom Huddleston, Time Out, 05.01.10 'The Road might just be one of the most heartfelt end-of-the-world movies yet made' : 'shockingly good at depicting that certain unspoken sadness that is the baseline of all parent-child relationships' Kevin Maher, The Times, 08.01.10