Viggo Mortensen

To say that Viggo Mortensen has had a varied career would be doing the man an injustice. As an actor, Mortensen’s resume is a jumbled list of indie, art-house and mainstream films, so how is it that such an experienced actor only really came into the public eye as one Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy? The man has since gone on to star in several moderately successful films including Hidalgo , A History of Violence and Eastern Promises , however I do believe that his next project, The Road will mark one hell of a milestone on the man’s ever-growing list ... Read Full Story

Film Viggo Mortensen's The Road Takes Path of Least Resistance By J. Hoberman Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 4:04pm The Road Directed by John HillcoatDimension FilmsOpens November 25 The Road, Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize–winning, Oprah-endorsed, post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem—in which a father and his 10-year-old son Read Full Story

Hello I am the movie encyclopedia and if no one else will see it, I will. Its weird that an eighteen year old can be a devout Cormac Macarthy fan but that's exactly what I am. Before I ever heard that it was going to be made into a movie I was excitedly reading The Road. Macarthy, who had previously wrote the book No Country For Old Men (you may have heard about the movie version) has a really good knack for writing books that have great movie potential. The same goes for Thomas Lehane, author of Mystic River and the upcoming Shutter Island. ... Read Full Story

John Hillcoat directed The Road is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy. The plot of the movie revolves around a father and his son in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It is perhaps no irony that the movie hits the theatres just two weeks after the Roland Emmerich directed 2012 which talked about annihilation of the entire world. The Road talks about a world post nuclear annihilation scene taking us back to the days of the Cold War. Buzz up! John Hillcoat says a lot about the story in the opening shot with images of greenery, of flowers, of sunny ... Read Full Story

Getty Images Viggo Mortensen starred alongside Elijah Wood in all of those Lord Of The Rings movies, and it sounds like their off-screen personas were much more lighthearted than the characters they portrayed on-screen. Mortensen loved to play practical jokes on set to keep his colleagues in a good mood -- even jokes that lasted weeks. Elijah and Viggo co-starred together in Lord of the Rings (VH1.com) He said: "There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun. One time, I called Elijah Wood every day for six weeks pretending to be a long-lost ... Read Full Story