Variety is reporting that South African Oscar winning actress Charlize Theron is signed on to join Viggo Mortensen in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s bestselling novel “The Road” for 2929 Entertainment which Dimension Films will distribute in the United States.

Novelist Cormac McCarthy provided the source material for “No Country for Old Men.”

The plot line behind “The Road” centers on a man who embarks on a nightmarish road trip after a nuclear explosion in an attempt to transport his son to safety while fending off cannibals.

Australian director John Hillcoat (”The Proposition“) has been hired to direct the Joe Penhall screenplay.

Charlize Theron will play the wife to Mortensen’s character and will be seen in the movie mostly in flashback. Although the role is small, Theron joined the project because she’s a big fan of the book — published by Knopf in 2006 — and was eager to reteam with producer Nick Wechsler, with whom she worked on 2000’s “The Yards.”

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