With lensing already underway on Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road,” the project has now topped off its cast with the stellar inclusions of Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss, Terrence Howard, Alice Braga (“Predators”) and the little known Danny Morgan, as well with the confirmed involvement of Tom Sturridge.
No word yet on who the thespians will portray but they’re great additions to an already exciting project. Adapted for the screen by Salles’s “Motorcycle Diaries” scribe José Rivera, the iconic Beat Generation work follows the story of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, surrogates for Kerouac and Neal Cassady to be played by Sam Riley and Garret Hedlund, as they journey across the North American landscape in pursuit of self-knowledge and experience.
Early paparazzi shots of the production have also unveiled the first glimpse of Kristen Stewart in her role as Marylou, the teenage bride of Hedlund’s Cassady, based on real-life character LuAnne Henderson. Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams also co-star respectively as Cassady’s wife Camille, William S. Burroughs surrogate Old Bull Lee and his wife Jane.
One of 2011’s most anticipated? We certainly can’t think of many films we’re more excited for, especially with this illustrious cast and a director whose been working on it for years before things finally came together — a lot of which was documented in “In Search of On the Road.”
Shooting began August 4th in Montreal and will later move onto New Mexico, New Orleans and San Francisco. Francis Ford Coppola is producing through his production shingle American Zoetrope in conjunction with VideoFilmes, Film4 and France 2. [Collider]