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On the Road (French: Sur la route) is a 2012 English-language Brazilian-French-UK-US co-production adventure/drama film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel of the same name directed by Walter Salles and starring Sam Riley as Sal Paradise and Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty. It is being executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Canada, with a $25 million budget.
The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the 1940s with his friend Neal Cassady and several other figures who would go on to fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
On May 23, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Following the death of his father, struggling young writer Sal Paradise embarks upon a journey across America with his friend and hero, Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of beat.
Cast
Sam Riley as Sal Paradise
Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty
Kristen Stewart as Marylou
Kirsten Dunst as Camille
Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee
Amy Adams as Jane
Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx
Steve Buscemi
Elisabeth Moss as Galatea Dunkel
Matthew Deano as Ray Lee
Murphy Moberly as Ray Lee
Alice Braga as Terry
Danny Morgan as Ed Dunkel
Terrence Howard as Walter
Patrick Costello as Chad King
Joey Klein as Tom Saybrook
Alison Louder as Dorie
Clara Furey as Inez
Adam LeBlanc as Remi Boncoeur
Jake La Botz as the Okie Hitchhiker
Rocky Marquette as Alfred
Imogen Haworth
Marie-Ginette Guay as Gabrielle Levesque (Aunt of Sal Paradise)
Giovanna Zacarías as Puta Loca Roja
Kaniehtiio Horn as Rita Bettancourt
Joe Chrest as Virginia Cop
Development
Previous attempts
A film adaptation of On the Road has been in the works for years. In 1957 Jack Kerouac wrote a one-page letter to actor Marlon Brando, suggesting that he play Dean Moriarty while Kerouac would portray Sal Paradise. In the letter, Kerouac envisioned the film to be shot "with the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and night) unwinding into the windshield, as Sal and Dean yak." Brando never responded to the letter, and later on Warner Bros. offered $110,000 for the rights to Kerouac's book but his agent, Sterling Lord, declined it. Lord hoped for $150,000 from Paramount Pictures, which wanted to cast Brando in the film. The deal did not occur and Kerouac was angered that his agent asked for too much money.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights in 1979.[11] Over the years, he hired several screenwriters to adapt the book into a film, including Michael Herr and Barry Gifford, only for Coppola to write his own draft with son Roman. In 1995, the filmmaker planned to shoot on black-and-white 16mm film and held auditions with poet Allen Ginsberg in attendance but the project fell through. Coppola said, "I tried to write a script, but I never knew how to do it. It's hard — it's a period piece. It's very important that it be period. Anything involving period costs a lot of money." Several years later he tried again with Ethan Hawke and Brad Pitt to play Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty respectively, but this project also failed to work. In 2001, Coppola hired novelist Russell Banks to write the script and planned to make the film with Joel Schumacher directing and starring Billy Crudup as Sal Paradise and Colin Farrell as Dean Moriarty, but this incarnation of the project was shelved as well. Gus Van Sant also expressed interest in making the film.
Pre-production
Coppola saw The Motorcycle Diaries and hired Brazilian director Walter Salles to direct the film. Salles was drawn to the novel because, according to him, it is about people "trying to break into a society that’s impermeable" and that he wants "to deal with a generation that collides with its society." In preparation for the film, he made the documentary Searching for On the Road, in which he takes the same road trip as the lead character in the novel, Sal Paradise, and talks to Beat poets who knew Kerouac. Coppola's American Zoetrope is producing the film, in association with MK2, Film4 in the U.K., France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, France Télévisions, Ciné+ and Videofilmes in Brazil.
Before filming began on August 2, 2010, in Montreal, Canada, with a $25 million budget, the entire cast underwent a three-week "beatnik boot camp," according to Stewart, which involved reading literature pertaining to the Beat Generation and was led by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia. He played an audio interview that was recorded in 1978 with Lu Anne Henderson, Neal Cassady's wife, on whom the book’s character Marylou is based.After a month of filming in Montreal, the production moved to New Orleans where it was filmed for a month then moved to Mexico for several weeks before returning to Montreal to wrap the final scenes.
Casting
Sam Riley will star as the alter ego of author Jack Kerouac, Sal Paradise. Garrett Hedlund has been cast as Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) and has been linked to the role since September 2007.Kristen Stewart will play Marylou,[19] and Kirsten Dunst will play Camille. By the first week of August 2010, Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams had joined the cast, Mortensen for the role of Old Bull Lee (William S. Burroughs) and Adams as the character's wife, Jane (Joan Vollmer). English actor Tom Sturridge has been cast as Carlo Marx (Allen Ginsberg), poet and friend to both Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty.
Salles has reunited with some of the crew members whom he worked with on The Motorcycle Diaries, including producer Rebecca Yeldham, screenwriter Jose Rivera, director of photography Eric Gautier, production designer Carlos Conti, and composer Gustavo Santaolalla.
Principal photography
Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Canada. Filming continued in Gatineau, Quebec, on August 17, which stands in for Denver, Colorado, in 1947. The film shot for five days in the middle of October 2010 in and around Calgary, Alberta. Some scenes were also shot in Mexico and the United States (mainly New Orleans and Arizona). The production shot for a week in early December 2010 in San Francisco. In addition, the production also shot in Argentina and Chile with actor Garrett Hedlund at one point filming a scene in which he drove a 1949 Hudson Hornet in the Andes during a blizzard, wearing goggles and screaming out his window while director Walter Salles sat in the passenger seat holding a camera, with another camera mounted on the front of the car.
Hedlund has described filming as "quite a guerilla shoot. At times, there’s just been two handfuls of crew members around us and it’s a very quiet situation." Cinematographer Eric Gautier shot several scenes with a handheld camera, and Salles encouraged the cast to improvise and "to make scenes flow and have a rhythm," said Hedlund.
The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the 1940s with his friend Neal Cassady and several other figures who would go on to fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
On May 23, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Following the death of his father, struggling young writer Sal Paradise embarks upon a journey across America with his friend and hero, Dean Moriarty, traveler and mystic, the living epitome of beat.
Cast
Sam Riley as Sal Paradise
Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty
Kristen Stewart as Marylou
Kirsten Dunst as Camille
Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee
Amy Adams as Jane
Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx
Steve Buscemi
Elisabeth Moss as Galatea Dunkel
Matthew Deano as Ray Lee
Murphy Moberly as Ray Lee
Alice Braga as Terry
Danny Morgan as Ed Dunkel
Terrence Howard as Walter
Patrick Costello as Chad King
Joey Klein as Tom Saybrook
Alison Louder as Dorie
Clara Furey as Inez
Adam LeBlanc as Remi Boncoeur
Jake La Botz as the Okie Hitchhiker
Rocky Marquette as Alfred
Imogen Haworth
Marie-Ginette Guay as Gabrielle Levesque (Aunt of Sal Paradise)
Giovanna Zacarías as Puta Loca Roja
Kaniehtiio Horn as Rita Bettancourt
Joe Chrest as Virginia Cop
Development
Previous attempts
A film adaptation of On the Road has been in the works for years. In 1957 Jack Kerouac wrote a one-page letter to actor Marlon Brando, suggesting that he play Dean Moriarty while Kerouac would portray Sal Paradise. In the letter, Kerouac envisioned the film to be shot "with the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and night) unwinding into the windshield, as Sal and Dean yak." Brando never responded to the letter, and later on Warner Bros. offered $110,000 for the rights to Kerouac's book but his agent, Sterling Lord, declined it. Lord hoped for $150,000 from Paramount Pictures, which wanted to cast Brando in the film. The deal did not occur and Kerouac was angered that his agent asked for too much money.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights in 1979.[11] Over the years, he hired several screenwriters to adapt the book into a film, including Michael Herr and Barry Gifford, only for Coppola to write his own draft with son Roman. In 1995, the filmmaker planned to shoot on black-and-white 16mm film and held auditions with poet Allen Ginsberg in attendance but the project fell through. Coppola said, "I tried to write a script, but I never knew how to do it. It's hard — it's a period piece. It's very important that it be period. Anything involving period costs a lot of money." Several years later he tried again with Ethan Hawke and Brad Pitt to play Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty respectively, but this project also failed to work. In 2001, Coppola hired novelist Russell Banks to write the script and planned to make the film with Joel Schumacher directing and starring Billy Crudup as Sal Paradise and Colin Farrell as Dean Moriarty, but this incarnation of the project was shelved as well. Gus Van Sant also expressed interest in making the film.
Pre-production
Coppola saw The Motorcycle Diaries and hired Brazilian director Walter Salles to direct the film. Salles was drawn to the novel because, according to him, it is about people "trying to break into a society that’s impermeable" and that he wants "to deal with a generation that collides with its society." In preparation for the film, he made the documentary Searching for On the Road, in which he takes the same road trip as the lead character in the novel, Sal Paradise, and talks to Beat poets who knew Kerouac. Coppola's American Zoetrope is producing the film, in association with MK2, Film4 in the U.K., France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, France Télévisions, Ciné+ and Videofilmes in Brazil.
Before filming began on August 2, 2010, in Montreal, Canada, with a $25 million budget, the entire cast underwent a three-week "beatnik boot camp," according to Stewart, which involved reading literature pertaining to the Beat Generation and was led by Kerouac biographer Gerald Nicosia. He played an audio interview that was recorded in 1978 with Lu Anne Henderson, Neal Cassady's wife, on whom the book’s character Marylou is based.After a month of filming in Montreal, the production moved to New Orleans where it was filmed for a month then moved to Mexico for several weeks before returning to Montreal to wrap the final scenes.
Casting
Sam Riley will star as the alter ego of author Jack Kerouac, Sal Paradise. Garrett Hedlund has been cast as Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassady) and has been linked to the role since September 2007.Kristen Stewart will play Marylou,[19] and Kirsten Dunst will play Camille. By the first week of August 2010, Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams had joined the cast, Mortensen for the role of Old Bull Lee (William S. Burroughs) and Adams as the character's wife, Jane (Joan Vollmer). English actor Tom Sturridge has been cast as Carlo Marx (Allen Ginsberg), poet and friend to both Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty.
Salles has reunited with some of the crew members whom he worked with on The Motorcycle Diaries, including producer Rebecca Yeldham, screenwriter Jose Rivera, director of photography Eric Gautier, production designer Carlos Conti, and composer Gustavo Santaolalla.
Principal photography
Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Canada. Filming continued in Gatineau, Quebec, on August 17, which stands in for Denver, Colorado, in 1947. The film shot for five days in the middle of October 2010 in and around Calgary, Alberta. Some scenes were also shot in Mexico and the United States (mainly New Orleans and Arizona). The production shot for a week in early December 2010 in San Francisco. In addition, the production also shot in Argentina and Chile with actor Garrett Hedlund at one point filming a scene in which he drove a 1949 Hudson Hornet in the Andes during a blizzard, wearing goggles and screaming out his window while director Walter Salles sat in the passenger seat holding a camera, with another camera mounted on the front of the car.
Hedlund has described filming as "quite a guerilla shoot. At times, there’s just been two handfuls of crew members around us and it’s a very quiet situation." Cinematographer Eric Gautier shot several scenes with a handheld camera, and Salles encouraged the cast to improvise and "to make scenes flow and have a rhythm," said Hedlund.
Trailer
Poster
Viggo Mortensen character poster
Sam Riley character poster
Kirsten Dunst character poster
Kristen Stewart character poster
Garrett Hedlund character poster
Amy Adams character poster
Elisabeth Moss character poster
Official Website
Official Facebook
Official Twitter
Official Tumblr
On the Road @ IMDb
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