The Road : le film

« Hillcoat sought to make the film faithful to the spirit of the book, creating « a world in severe trauma, » although the circumstances of the apocalyptic event are never explained.

He preferred to shoot in real locations.

He said « We didn't want to go the CGI (Computer-generated imagery) world. ».

The filming in outer lasted 60 days, in more than 50 different settings.

Unlike most of the filming, the team looked for places in ruins, abandoned, and especially not welcoming.

And as The Road is set in a private world of sunshine, the film was shot in difficult weather conditions.

Hillcoat said "The sun is our enemy,". The film took place in Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Oregon and with a few exceptions, the setting is rural, with gray skies, wintry bare trees. Pennsylvania, where most of the filming took place, was chosen for its abundance of abandoned locations: coalfields, dunes, and run-down parts of Pittsburgh.

Hillcoat said of using Pittsburgh as a practical location, "It's a beautiful place in fall with the colors changing, but in winter, it can be very bleak.

There are city blocks that are abandoned.

The woods can be brutal." Filming was also done at the 1892 (eighteen ninety-two) amusement resort (Conneaut Lake Park) after one of the park's buildings (the Dreamland Ballroom) was destroyed in a fire in February 2008.

We can see the logo ''Conneaut Lake Park''.

We can see the similitaries with the reality, the real fire.  The beaches of Presque Isle State Park in Erie, Pennsylvania were also used.  Filmmakers also turned scenes of devastation in parts of New Orleans that had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and on Mount St.

Helens in Washington.  An 8-mile stretch of closed freeway and a stretch of abandoned roadway between Hustontown and Breezewood was used for much of the production.  Faithfulness and Freedom :. »