Sometimes, a place can be too apocalyptic.Opening January 15, 2010, the sci-fi drama revolves around a lone warrior (Washington) who must fight to bring society the knowledge that could be the key to its redemption. Oldman has been set to portray the despot of a small makeshift town who's determined to take possession of the book Eli's guarding.Like this place. Temperatures can drop below freezing as snowstorms pummel the desert terrain and winds whip sand into fierce dust storms.
"You occasionally ask yourself why you're shooting a movie in these conditions," says Allen Hughes, who co-directs the thriller The Book of Eli, due Jan. 15, with his twin brother, Albert. "When the wind is really blowing, it looks like the earth is meeting the sky. It looks like the end of the world."
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