Kerouac's "On the Road" with Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart

[WyldeMan45]

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is one of my all-time favorite books, and I have been waiting for the movie forever. I really like Garrett's work in the past and with Tron Legacy he is looking to become a huge star over the next year. I have liked Kristen in the movies I've seen her in so far, so I have no qualms with the casting as of now.

Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart go 'On the Road'

Kristen Stewart is joining Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries) upcoming adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. USA Today (via The Playlist) reports that Stewart announced her involvement with the film after telling the newspaper that “I am very much attached to a movie that has been trying to get made forever. Not that this is going to help it, but maybe I can just brag a little bit. I am super excited about it, too. I am about to play Marylou in On the Road. So that’s a big deal.”

Seeing Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy) get cast as On The Road’s Dean Moriarity and now Stewart as Marylou, his young wife, is a great sign for fans of the novel who have been anticipating a film forever now. Various directors, including Francis Ford Coppola, have tried to make a film based on Jack Kerouac’s beloved 1957 novel for the past 30 years with no luck. Walter Salles seems to have figured it out though since filming is set to start this summer. More info on On the Road after the jump.

If you want to know a bit more about On the Road, here’s the review from Publishers Weekly:

“Fans of Kerouac get the whole beautiful, groovy deal with this new recording of the radically hip novel that many consider the heart of the Beat movement. Poetic, open and raw, Kerouac’s prose lays out a cross-country adventure as experienced by Sal Paradise, an autobiographical character. A writer holed up in a room at his aunt’s house, Paradise gets inspired by Dean Moriarty (a character based on Kerouac’s friend Neal Cassady) to hit the road and see America. From the moment he gets on the seven train out of New York City, he takes the reader through the highs and lows of hitchhiking, bonding with fellow explorers and opting for beer before food. First published in 1957, Kerouac’s perennially hot story continues to express the restless energy and desire for freedom that makes people rush out to see the world. The tale is only improved by Dillon’s well-paced, articulate reading as he voices the flow of images and graveled reality of Paradise’s search for the edge.”

[Gamma_Winstead]

Yeah Kristen is good. Glad to see her get roles that don't have sparkly vampires in em.

[WyldeMan45]

First Image of Kristen Stewart; Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss, Alice Braga, Terrence Howard to Co-Star

An unofficial photo of Kristen Stewart as Marylou on the set of the long-in-development adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has landed online. The film co-stars Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty, Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Kirsten Dunst as Camille, Amy Adams as Jane, and Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee.

Filming began on August 4th, and we received a press release announcing that Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Alice Braga (Predators), Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio), Danny Morgan (the TV show Off the Hook), and Terrence Howard. However, we don’t know which roles they’ll be playing. I’d be able to provide an educated guess but I haven’t read the book yet. It’s currently sitting in a pile of other classic works of literature that I keep by my bed to make me feel bad about myself.

On the Road is due out in 2011.

[D4L3K]

This is released on Blu-ray on Feb. 25th in the UK. It's not region free.

When do we get it?

[Penglii]

Anyone know if the German release by Concorde video is region free?