Movies
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Read more...Official On the Road Movie Poster Released
The Facebook page for Walter Salles’ film adaptation of On the Road debuted the official movie poster today: If you’re anticipating the film’s release as eagerly as we are, then you might recognize the photo—a view of the ’49 Hudson rumbling off into the desert, a cloud of dust at its rear—from last year’s Cannes […]
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Read more...Arrival of the ’49 Hudson (video)
Garrett Hedlund (portraying Neal Cassady in the upcoming film adaptation of Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’, directed by Walter Salles) drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco on December 7th, 2011 to deliver the 1949 Hudson used in the movie to The Beat Museum. Accompanying Hedlund were John Allen Cassady (son of the real Neal) and […]
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Read more...The ’49 Hudson Comes to the Beat Museum
Neal Cassady’s legendary ‘49 Hudson, made famous in Jack Kerouac’s novel On The Road, is lost to posterity. Other than Jack’s description of it in the novel (to the point where it is almost a character in the book) and the memory of it in the minds of Neal’s wife Carolyn Cassady and his friend […]
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Read more...A Day on the Set of Big Sur, Part 1
by Jerry Cimino And then there were two. As a friend of mine put it most succinctly a few weeks ago, “I’ve been waiting fifty years for a new film adaptation of one of Kerouac’s books, and now we’ve got two of them coming one on the heels of the other.” Truer words were never […]
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Read more...A Day on the Set of Big Sur, Part 1
by Jerry Cimino And then there were two. As a friend of mine put it most succinctly a few weeks ago, “I’ve been waiting fifty years for a new film adaptation of one of Kerouac’s books, and now we’ve got two of them coming one on the heels of the other.” Truer words were never […]
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Read more...Exclusive Photos from 2nd Unit Shoot in April
This story came to our inbox along with these exclusive photos. They’re being published today for the first time anywhere at Kerouac.com.
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On the Road with Jose Rivera (video)
Screenwriter José Rivera teamed up with director Walter Salles to adapt for the screen the story of Che Guevara’s 1952 motorcycle journey with Alberto Granado across South America. In this CityTV video, Rivera offers his thoughts on his latest collaboration with Salles in adapting Jack Kerouac’s classic, On the Road, to film.
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New York Times article discussing On the Road
“Many consider Jack Kerouac’s On the Road sacred text. The novel was, after all, originally typed on a scroll… “When it comes to the big screen, however, On the Road has faced a Kerouac curse. Past efforts by Hollywood to adapt the author’s work have been failures. Now, somewhat quietly, On the Road has finally […]
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Another Production Still
This photo of Sam Riley (left) as Jack Kerouac and Garrett Hedlund (right) as Neal Cassady recently appeared in UK film magazine Total Film.
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Still – The Mexico Whorehouse Scene
Here’s another promo photo for MK2 Productions’ movie On the Road: This is undoubtedly the Mexican whorehouse scene from On the Road. It takes place close to the end of the book, just after Jack and Neal blasted pot with the Mexican cats, Victor and his brothers, with them all digging each other, not speaking […]
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First Stills from On the Road
The first publicity photos for the movie On the Road were recently released by a French website. Now, I don’t know about you, but I see Marylou, Dean and a brooding Sal Paradise (Sam Riley) in that ’49 Hudson. Judge for yourself.