Make Way For The Many Angel-Headed Hipsters
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 4:47PM 
JA from MNPP here, with the first couple of pictures from Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac's semi-autobiographical classic On the Road. (via) On the right that's Sam Riley as Kerouac stand-in Sal Paradise, with Garrett Hedlund as Neal Cassidy stand-in Dean Moriarty. No look at Kristen Stewart or Kirsten Dunst or Viggo Mortensen, amongst others, yet. Apparently the few people who've seen the film so far are saying the film, and Stewart in particular, as very good. No specific release date's set yet but it should be out before the end of the year.
We just saw Kerouac and Cassidy on-screen last year in Howl, played by Todd Rotundi and Jon Prescott, seen here:
It's a popular time to be a Beat, eh? I wonder why On the Road's finally able to get made after all these years. Does anybody think Mad Men's successful fetishization of the Sixties has anything to do with it?
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Garret Hedlund, On the Road, Sam Riley, on the set
Reader Comments (6)
Not really the first. You can see some more here: http://www.lpm.com.br/site/default.asp?TroncoID=805133&SecaoID=816261&SubsecaoID=935305&Template=../artigosnoticias/user_exibir.asp&ID=508222 and here: http://ontheroadfilm.livejournal.com/56752.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Another great version of this story is MOTORCYCLE DIARIES...or wait, that's che. Still a good flick. Gael Garcia Bernal...sigh. Oh Nat please give us more Gael!
Definitely interested to see how this one plays out. That cast could really sell it.
Also curious about this never making it to the big screen till now. It's an American lit staple, you'd think they would've made it in the 70s or something.
BTW does anyone remember that Levi's Go Fourth commercial from a couple years ago, "O Pioneers!"? It was directed by Cary Fukunaga and it has an incredibly similar vibe that I've always thought the film version of On the Road might eventually have one day.
One of my most anticipated. Recently revisited the novel/biography, it truly is one of the great ones of the past century.
Great book but I'm worried about this film -- if it takes things too literally it could wind up being as pretentious and predetermined as Oliver Stone's The Doors, or that Factory Girl movie. The only way to really handle this stuff is to decontextualize everything into a hallucinatory freakshow ala Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (Almuerzo desnudo)
Why would "Mad Men's successful fetishization of the Sixties" have anything to do with interest in the Beat generation (of the 1950's)?