James Franco’s CHILD OF GOD has already been around the film festival circuit, but now we’ve got a new clip ahead of its limited theatre release in August.
Based on best-selling American author Cormac McCarthy’s third novel of the same name, CHILD OF GOD explores typical McCarthian themes of nihilism, violence and masculinity. The story follows Lester Ballard, an outsider in ’60s Tennessee who ends up going a bit Colonel Kurtz and discovering the inner horror of Man when he runs amok in the countryside, killing people and defiling corpses left, right and centre.
Of course, this is par the course for McCarthy. His novels have featured infanticide, cannibalism, torture and sexual deviancy. No wonder filmmakers are so keen to adapt his work – we’ve already had THE ROAD, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, while his screenplay THE COUNSELOR was adapted by Ridley Scott (can someone please adapt Blood Meridian?)
You can see the clip below, but beware – it’s NSFW due to violence:
CHILD OF GOD is released in limited US theatres from August 1 and on VOD from October 28. It stars Scott Haze, Tim Blake Nelson, Jim Parrack, and Franco also stars.
Claire Joanne Huxham comes from the south-west, where the cider flows free and the air smells of manure. She teaches A-level English by day and fights crime by night. When not doing either of these things she can usually be found polishing her Star Trek DVD boxsets. And when she can actually be bothered she writes fiction and poetry that pops up on the web and in print. Her favourite film in the whole world, ever, is BLADE RUNNER.
