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Kristen Stewart goes 'On the Road'
Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund join adaptation of Kerouac novel
LONDON -- Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles' long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road."
Shooting is set to begin in August on the $25 million budgeted production, backers said Thursday.
Salles' producing partner Rebecca Yeldham is teaming up with French production banner MK2 who snapped up the rights and will produce the film in collaboration with Film 4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil.
Salles traveled across the U.S. in Kerouac's footsteps to prepare the adaptation, filming a documentary on the search for "On The Road" as part of his prep.
Oscar nominated scribe Jose Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries") has penned the adaptation for Salles.
Stewart will play the role of Dean Moriarty's incandescent on-and-off wife Marylou while Riley will star as author Jack Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise. Hedlund has been cast as Dean Moriarty.
"We are enormously proud to be collaborating on one of the last great cinematographic adventures of the 20th century to be brought to the screen," stated MK2's Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert.
Kerouac's cult novel of youth and freedom was first published in 1957 and has sold several million copies all over the world.
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Kristen Stewart goes 'On the Road'
Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund join adaptation of Kerouac novel
LONDON -- Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles' long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road."
Shooting is set to begin in August on the $25 million budgeted production, backers said Thursday.
Salles' producing partner Rebecca Yeldham is teaming up with French production banner MK2 who snapped up the rights and will produce the film in collaboration with Film 4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil.
Salles traveled across the U.S. in Kerouac's footsteps to prepare the adaptation, filming a documentary on the search for "On The Road" as part of his prep.
Oscar nominated scribe Jose Rivera ("The Motorcycle Diaries") has penned the adaptation for Salles.
Stewart will play the role of Dean Moriarty's incandescent on-and-off wife Marylou while Riley will star as author Jack Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise. Hedlund has been cast as Dean Moriarty.
"We are enormously proud to be collaborating on one of the last great cinematographic adventures of the 20th century to be brought to the screen," stated MK2's Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert.
Kerouac's cult novel of youth and freedom was first published in 1957 and has sold several million copies all over the world.
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