Filming of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” has just wrapped and NYT offers us a great preview. [GvsB]

To be released in November, the film has an amazing cast including Viggo Mortensen as the lead as well as Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce in supporting roles. Michael K. Williams (Omar Little of The Wire) will also appear in the film as a thief.

The producers chose Pennsylvania, one of them, Nick Wechsler, explained, because it’s one of the many states that give tax breaks and rebates to film companies and, not incidentally, because it offered such a pleasing array of post-apocalyptic scenery: deserted coalfields, run-down parts of Pittsburgh, windswept dunes. Chris Kennedy, the production designer, even discovered a burned-down amusement park in Lake Conneaut and an eight-mile stretch of abandoned freeway, complete with tunnel, ideal for filming the scene where the father and son who are the story’s main characters are stalked by a cannibalistic gang traveling by truck.