Looks like Charlize Theron has a thing for Oregon.
Just in from the Oregon Film and Video Office confirming when The Road hits the Oregon road:
The feature film production of “The Road” will be filming in the North Oregon Coast area during the month of May. A 2929 Production, “THE ROAD” is executive-produced by Todd Wagner, Rudd Simmons, Mark Cuban and Marc Butan.
2929 Entertainment, producers of Theron’s The Burning Plain, which shot in earlier in both Portland and Depoe Bay, will bring Theron back to Oregon sometime soon to star with Viggo Mortensen in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.
According to Amazon.com, The Road is set in “a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth.”
That does sound like Portland, what with the gray skies drizzling ash (Mount St. Helens, anyone?). Of course, those bits of people flesh would have to be sustainably raised and range-fed—Madras ranchers, say.
According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Road shot in Southwestern Pennsylvania for eight weeks starting in late February to take advantage of the cold and snow but the film also will spend a week in Louisiana and a week in Oregon.
And according to Variety:
Theron, who will play the wife of Mortensen’s character, will be seen 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 re-team with producer Nick Wechsler, with whom she worked on 2000’s “The Yards.”
In other breaking Portland-related-Charlize Theron movie news, it looks like the South African actress is also attached to another writer.
In this case, Portland-based Spiderman scribe, screenwriter, and all-around cool cat, Brian Michael Bendis, who has just finished a screen adaptation of his graphic novel Jinx for Universal Pictures in which Theron, who is said to be currently attached to the project, will play a bounty hunter in search of misplaced mob money. 
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Charlize isn’t an Aussie. She’s South African. You can still have your alliteration.
Just working with Viggo Mortensen, would be enough to send me to Oregon. Charlize, you lucky girl!! Enjoy!!
Now, that’s passion for work. No matter how small or big her role may have been, Charlize did not mind as long as she gets to film in a story she loves. Afterall, Academy Awards isn’t just about taking the big roles, it’s about making the most of what the actor’s got.
casting calls for charlize’s "The Road" movie is available here:
http://www.newfaces.com/auditions/Film-Movie-casting-calls_4878