Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban's 2929 Productions is set to shoot The Road at the beginning of 2008 with John Hillcoat (The Proposition) on board to direct.

Scriptwriter Joe Penhall (Enduring Love) will adapt Cormac McCarthy's novel about a father who tries to get his son to safety in a post-apocalyptic world.

'It's a beautiful script,' Kent Kubena, head of development at 2929 Productions, tells Screen. 'We are looking to shoot for about eight weeks early next year and are currently scouting locations.'

The film will be produced by Nick Wechsler who optioned the novel and worked with 2929 Productions on We Own The Night, which was in competition at Cannes.

No cast is attached yet.

The Coen Brother's Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country For Old Men is an official entry at Toronto and will open in the US through Miramax in November.

2929 Productions is also set to shoot a further two productions this autumn. James Gray's Two Lovers, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow, and Babel scriptwriter Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut The Burning Plain, starring Charlize Theron, in New Mexico.