John Hillcoat

Oh my God.

Which they shot in Prague, um, directed by John Hillcoat.

Again, they got, like, big name directors to do this.

This was, I mean, this is the era of they'll spend a million bucks on a music video.

The sky is gray, the snow is gray with ash, the trees are dead, and almost all of humanity is just gone.

Azeem mentions John Hillcoat's film adaptation from 2009, which captured this visual misery perfectly.

It did.

But there is something about reading McCarthy's actual prose that traps you in that landscape in a way a screen simply can't.