Beginning november 11, veterans day, you can watch the awardwinning documentary blood road on red bull tv for free through the end of the year across all devices. Instead, the title is an allusion to how much darn bloodshed our heroes encounter over the course of their travels, with a total body count reaching grand theft autolevels by the end yeah, its bloody to say the l. Ridley scotts london production company, scott free uk, purchased the option to develop it early on. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about html5. Jul 06, 2011 blood red road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal writing style, violent action, and an epic love story. I love everything about saba her language, her intensity, her heart. Resolution saba, some of the free hawks, emmi, jack, ike, and tommo get things ready to invade freedom fields. Petersburg, florida 33716 tallahassee 1731 riggins road. Saba could go more than a few rounds with katniss everdeen and probably even win thats right, i. Hahahhahehrhehrherherhherhuehuehueheu its the blood red road presentation, what else. Movie insider is a registered mark of the movie insider llc. One morning, she wakes to find that emmi has borrowed mercys horse and followed her.
For our blood red road writing contest, we asked you to write a 250500 word short story describing a futuristicdystopian world. Blood red road dystopian worlds writing contest winners. Moira young is the author of the dust lands series. Initially disarming, the stylized language quickly becomes exciting, fresh and, at times, lyrical. The intuitive bird helps to keep saba going in the right direction.
Moira young goes over the top with a most engaging heroine. They can see in the palace but they are quiet so that they dont get caught. Blood red road is a dystopian novel by moira young, published in june 2011 by marion lloyd books in the uk and margaret k. Blood road follows the journey of ultraendurance mountain bike athlete rebecca rusch and her vietnamese riding partner, huyen nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 miles along the infamous ho chi minh. Instead, the title is an allusion to how much darn bloodshed our heroes encounter over the course of their travels, with a total body count reaching grand theft autolevels by the end. If we think back to blood red road, it was nothing more than an engaging, fastpaced, and pageflipping dystopian novel. Young adult books blood red road by moira young the new. Learn more about a blood red road at to escape, she will have to fight. Everything you need to know about blood red road movie. Jun 05, 2011 blood red road is the opening installment in a planned trilogy by the firsttime novelist moira young, and it sets the stage for a classic heros journey. James dashner, author of the maze runner i absolutely loved blood red road. Feb 26, 2014 b lood red road is an amazing, powerful novel that i highly enjoyed reading. Blood red road by moira young childrens books the guardian. Actually, it is very rare for the movie to be better than the book.
Jun 17, 2017 blood road is the first feature to be written, produced, edited, and directed inhouse by the u. Amid a postapocalyptic world, a girl sets out to rescue her twin brother after he is snatched by mysterious. B lood red road is an amazing, powerful novel that i highly enjoyed reading. Amid a postapocalyptic world, a girl sets out to rescue her twin brother after he is snatched by mysterious blackrobed riders who ride in. Jan, 2012 moira youngs blood red road is more hunger games than oryx and crake. They have the same fast pace and similar scrappy female characters having to make it in an unfair and incredibly violent world. The wizard of oz, lawrence of arabia, raiders of the lost ark, gladiator, star wars, mad max, last of the mohicans and captain blood. Ive loved westerns since my childhood, they form the foundation of the dustlands. In short, blood red road is a worthy successor to the hunger games. Internet speculative fiction database tags the books as post. Saba uses a pair of binoculars and spots lugh, she knows that he is still alive now.
Jul 31, 2011 for our blood red road writing contest, we asked you to write a 250500 word short story describing a futuristicdystopian world. One night, as lugh and saba are skipping rocks along the shore of the dying lake, a strange red sandstorm approaches from the horizon. The winners were all chosen based on the quality of their entries. Saba could go more than a few rounds with katniss everdeen and probably even win thats right, i said it. The wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for saba and her family to scavenge from. Blood road is the first feature to be written, produced, edited, and directed inhouse by the u. Moira young is one of the most promising and startling new voices in teen fiction. Blood red road is the opening installment in a planned trilogy by the firsttime novelist moira young, and it sets the stage for a classic heros journey. Of course, this is an excellent hunger games readalike, although instead of straight up speculative science fiction, there are some elements of fantasy in blood red road.
Saba is living a life of isolation with her father, her twin brother lugh and her sister emmi. You can read more about the books and actually see the book video for blood red road, as well as an excerpt from rebel heart, on moira youngs official publishers page. I read somewhere that this book was optioned to be become a movie even before being published. Youngs vernacular transcends the invention of a fictional vocabulary 1. Rebel heart, however, for all its flaws, is actually a much stronger novel than blood red road ever was.
Learn more about a blood red road at bloodredroadmoirayoung9781442429987. Ridley scotts london production company, scott free uk. The wizard of oz, lawrence of arabia, raiders of the lost ark, gladiator, star wars. May 10, 2011 of course, this is an excellent hunger games readalike, although instead of straight up speculative science fiction, there are some elements of fantasy in blood red road. The red road is an american drama television series that aired on sundancetv from february 27, 2014 to may 7, 2015. Blood road follows ultraendurance athlete rebecca rusch and her riding partner, huyen nguyen, as they pedal 1, 200 miles along the infamous ho chi minh trail to reach the crash site of rebeccas father, who was shot down 40 years earlier. It was youngs first book and it inaugurated a trilogy under the series title dust lands. This was sundancetvs second fully owned scripted original series. In the 19th century california, a sicilian family of able winemakers gets target by a corrupt railroad tycoon after their refusal to leave their land. The first book, blood red road, won the costa childrens book award, was a cybils award winner for fantasy and science fiction, and was a best fiction for young adults selection. Blood red road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal writing style, violent action, and an epic love story. Oddly enough, theres no highway called blood red road in blood red road, though it would fit well enough with such locales as the black mountains and darktrees. With eric roberts, giancarlo giannini, dennis hopper, burt young.
Jan 03, 2012 moira young is the author of the dust lands series. Blood red road has a searing pace, a poetic writing style, and an epic love storymaking moira young is one of the most exciting new voices in teen fiction. Read the heartstopping blood red road, rebel heart and raging star now. Blood red road by moira young overdrive rakuten overdrive.
Blood road deals with grief on ho chi minh trail red bull. With rebecca rusch, huyen nguyen, ian adamson, sharon bannister. Blood road follows the journey of ultraendurance mountain bike athlete rebecca rusch and her vietnamese riding partner, huyen nguyen, as they pedal 1,200. The documentary is described as an epic demonstration of human. Saba recognizes one of the riders as their only neighbor, a man named proctor john. Oh, yeahand did we mention that they live in a postapocalyptic wasteland. Warrior girl stars in actionpacked debut for mature teens. Young adult books blood red road by moira young the. Thats a big deal, because their dad is obsessed with the stars. Like collinss novel, it comes with a blockbusting movie deal, but also with a to me rather baffling costa book award. The red road was canceled after its second season, as confirmed by jason momoa, who played phillip kopus in the series.
Pa manages to pull emmi into the storm cellar, but lugh and saba are caught in it. The searchers became my touchstone for blood red road. Blood road trailer 2017 trailer addict movie trailers. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Blood red road is trying too hard to be a movie before even being a book. Welcome to the official page of moira youngs dustlands series.
Instead, the documentary is a triumph, more about emotional states than grueling physical challenges. Blood red road will capture any reader who picks it up. An american athlete decides to bike the ho chi minh trail in nicholas schrunks doc blood road, enlisting a vietnamese cyclist and a support crew in her attempt to visit the site where, when she. Saba has spent her whole life in silverlake, a driedup wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. Moira young updates on blood red road movie adaptation.
The novel tells the story of saba, a stubborn and determined eighteen year old, and her journey to rescue her brother. She never once questions what is outside the boundaries of her home until one day, a group of strange men come and, for reasons unknown, take away her fathers life and kidnap lugh. Blood road goes far beyond the extreme sports film one might expect. Moira youngs blood red road is more hunger games than oryx and crake. Mar 30, 20 you can read more about the books and actually see the book video for blood red road, as well as an excerpt from rebel heart, on moira youngs official publishers page.
The film blood road follows rebecca rusch and her vietnamese riding partner, huyen nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 miles along the infamous ho chi. Saba is forced to bring emmi with her as she has no water or food to survive the twoday journey back to mercy. Trailer for the documentary blood road blood road follows the journey of ultraendurance mountain bike athlete rebecca rusch and her vietnamese riding partner, huyen nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 miles along the infamous ho chi minh trail through the dense jungles of vietnam, laos, and cambodia. The mysteries surrounding her fathers death in the vietnam war lead ultraendurance mountain biker rebecca rusch on an emotional journey as she pedals 1200 miles of the ho chi minh trail. To answer questions about blood red road, please sign up. A back story of the book by the waters of babylon after aquiring knowledge that the gods are not true, i decided to take a bunch of people with me to and adventure, searching evidence that the gods are not real, so i went. Adventure, postapocalyptic, speculative fiction, young adult publisher. The film blood road follows rebecca rusch and her vietnamese riding partner, huyen nguyen, as they pedal 1,200 miles along the infamous ho chi minh trail through the dense jungles of vietnam. Epics and classic adventure movies also inspired the dustlands books.
Tallahassee, fl 32308 orlando 8669 commodity circle. We dont know exactly what went down to create this wasteland, but it sure seems nasty. In a distant future, eighteenyearold lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister saba and nineyearold emmi are trailing him across bleak sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal hopetown, where saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape. And just as an added note, theyre making blood red road into a movie.
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