Two movies I’m excited about in a row?  I think this is some kind of record.  Either that or the coke’s working.  EEEEEEE!

Anyway, John Hillcoat’s currently hard at work directing a film adaptation of The Road, from No Country for Old Men author Cormac McCarthy.  If you’ve never read Cormac McCarthy, his sentences are as long as they are nonsensical, and yet somehow awesome.  Also, most of his books are really violent.  They’re basically like a Wesley Willis song that stabs people in the face.

The pic comes courtesy of RopeofSilicon, and in it, Viggo Mortensen seems to be saying, “Son… I’ve been bitten by a rattlesnake on the penis.  …You’re gonna have to suck out the poison.”  Or perhaps I’m reading too much into it. 

Cocky A-hole Jamie Foxx and awesome drug-taker Roberty Downey Jr. are all set to appear in The Soloist, "the true-life tale of a homeless violin virtuoso Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who was unable to develop his talent after he began to suffer from schizophrenia." 

I love these "hobo with a heart of gold" stories. As if every wino was just a regular guy until he hit a stretch of bad luck, and now he drinks Windex and wears a diaper made of newspapers.  

Secondly, a movie about a homeless, schizophrenic musician, and it's NOT Wesley Willis?!  All I'm saying is that if you have a chance to greenlight a script called "Suck a Donkey's Smelly Ass", you just go with it.  Tracy Morgan could play him.

More Tracy Morgan goodness, after the jump…

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