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Amy Adams Joins Viggo Mortensen For 'On The Road' Trip

By MIKE FLEMING@dealine.com| Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 6:23pm EDT

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Ford Coppola has been working for 30 years to turn Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat Generation novel On the Road  into a movie. It is starting to look like it was worth the wait. Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are joining the Walter Salles-directed adaptation that will begin this month, I'm told. She will play Jane, the emotionally damaged junkie mother of two children and the wife of Old Bull Lee. Mortensen is going to play Lee. Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Tron: Legacy's Garrett Hedlund are also set for the pic. Script's by Jose Rivera, who teamed with Salles on The Motorcycle Diaries. Coppola and Rebecca Yeldham are producing. The film began production today.

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Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss, Terrence Howard & More Round Out Cast For Walter Salles' 'On The Road'

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.

Source: http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/08/steve-buscemi-elisabeth-moss-terrence.html

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Apparently, there was a SAG panel with Kirsten Dunst recently. Kirsten said she starts shooting OTR in 3 weeks, has been practicing with her acting coach and is reading Carolyn Cassady's book. She loves "On the Road" and first read it when she was 15, because she had a crush on a boy and it was his favorite book.

[John.]

Thanks for the info gkfi.

I'm guessing Kirsten will film all her scenes in a period of about 2 weeks (much like she did in Eternal Sunshine). It looks like filming is going to continue to at least late December & possibly into early next year.

I realise that they are completely different types of films but it's amazing to think that Melancholia was filmed in 6 weeks compared to at least 20 weeks for On The Road.

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Some directors and projects just work differently I guess. I like the fact that in order to re-enacting THE journey, the cast and crew of OTR have been through months of intense preparation and filming. Afterall, film adaptation of this one has been in the works for years.

According to Kirsten's recent SAG Q&A session, director Walter Selles has been shooting some DVD footage at the same time as well. Perhaps this is another reason why this project has been taken so long.

[John.]

Kirsten completed filming of her scenes in the film last thursday. All her scenes were filmed in San Francisco in a hectic one week shoot during a break from promoting "All Good Things".

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Walter Salles Talks About 'On The Road', I'm surprised that this won't be ready until 2012.

Walter Salles talks about end of filming of "On The Road" project which will display the book by Jack Kerouac

"I just think this movie will be when the last plane is shot," said the filmmaker Walter Salles in mid-2010. Done. The final slate of On the Road was hit on December 11 last, San Francisco (USA), after almost four months on the road with the actor Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Tom Sturridge, Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi and Alice Braga, and others. The care Brazilian is understandable, since even today many difficulties prevented the adaptation of this classic of the Beat movement, Jack Kerouac, published in 1957. The economic crisis of 2008 was the latest drying up funding sources and those interested in venturing into an independent film. On Thursday, the director started editing the film. In an interview, said preparations for the film, tells how they were filming in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Argentina and says the film should be ready by early 2012.

Leaf - After so many names involved in the attempt to film "On the Road" feels like having finally secured the implementation of this project?

Walter Salles Jr. - Without the support and generosity of filmmakers and writers connected to the other incarnations of the project, such as Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Coppola and Barry Gifford, would not have reached the end ... This is the only certainty is that. From a personal standpoint, finished shooting a project that took six years to materialize is not simple. It is a feeling of emptiness.

The fact that he had been shot in 2010 somehow changed their options, since the movie deals with themes like the role of immigrants, the culture of fear, sexual repression, liberation by drugs?

The invitation from Zoetrope to make the film came in 2004. During those years that was not possible to finance the film, much has changed in the U.S. and worldwide. But Kerouac's book transcends a particular period and their possible inconsistencies. He announces a behavioral revolution that has opened up many of the changes usually associated with libertarian 60 years and that affect how we live today, the sexual liberation, mind expansion through drugs, redefining the family, the emergence of ecology etc.. And most of all, the need for experimentation.

When filming began? As last?

The MK2, the French independent producer, gave us the green light at the end of May. We only had eight weeks to prepare to start shooting, less than any movie I've directed. There were sixty-few days of shooting, 20 less than "Diaries [Motorcycle (2004)], for the same number of scenes. In other words, there was no time for much hesitation.

What countries and cities were the recordings?

In the U.S. cities that have kept traces of the past are increasingly rare. There are malls, Walmarts and McDonalds everywhere. This forced us to go farther and farther to find places that still had some architectural interest, and deserted roads. We shot in different regions of Canada, around Calgary, Montreal and Hull, in New Orleans (USA), in the deserts of Arizona, San Francisco and Mexico.

There was shooting in Bariloche. Why?

First, because the film's budget did not allow us to wait for winter in the Northern Hemisphere. One solution would be to create the winter digitally manipulating the images. I come from the documentary and am totally against it, fake snow, actors having to spend the sensation of cold at 40 degrees in the shade. That was when we remember that during the filming locations of "Diaries" was a stretch of the border between Argentina and Chile we had left out because it seems to eastern U.S.. We went there in August. We shot in the middle of snowstorms, freeze the truth and still had the pleasure of finding a good part of the team "Diaries."

What is the film's budget? The fact that a smaller budget than anticipated changed the film in any way?

The cost of On the Road "differs from other films in that it includes the expenditures that occurred during 45 years of development ... a dozen different routes, payments to producers involved in earlier stages of the film, etc.. The MK2 is still calculating the final budget, but the fact is that we shot with economy and urgency to get to the end. It was not possible, for example, mounted parallel to the shooting. It is the first time this has happened since "Foreign Land" (1996). We did not see what we shot.

There is already an estimate of when will be released?

No, because only now we begin to discover the film images, with the beginning of the assembly. I imagine he will be ready by year's end or early 2012.

Source: http://foforks.com.br/2011/01/entrevista-walter-salles-fala-sobre-on-the-road/#ixzz1B3KxV0Ze

[John.]

Logically they will be looking to be in the mix for next years major awards so I would expect a December 2011 release in the U.S.

[gkfi]

Like you said, John, I think the production company behind it will push for a December 2011 release. So far, the French release date is already set for December 7, 2011, and I believe the Brazil release date is also set for November/December 2011 a while ago.

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On The Road will be completed by September?

Director Walter Salles has just returned from the United States. Crossed the country from one side to another with the filming of "On the Road," a film inspired by the book by Jack Kerouac. The filmmaker spoke with Glamurama and added a few stories.

* "Six years of preparation," said Waltinho, who managed to close co-production with no less than Francis Ford Coppola and the French MK2. "We crossed the USA from start to finish with a team of five people. We also went by Canada and Mexico. "Everything to cause the viewer what he calls a" sense of displacement and desire for discovery, "which follow the book by Kerouac.

* Waltinho, moreover, is not the only star of the production. In the cast are Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Alice Braga, and others. The assembly must be completed in late September, and the movie hits the big screen in 2012.

Source: http://glamurama.uol.com.br/Materia_na-estrada-71609.aspx?
via @tELLErized

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In terms of specialty titles, other projects getting a close look during Cannes are Walter Salles' On the Road, the film adaptation of Jack Keroac's classic tome and starring Sam Riley as Sal Paradise and Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty. Insiders say footage of the film will be shown to domestic buyers here on Sunday evening. On the Road is produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Film4 and MK2.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Updated:
Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s beat classic On the Road, which Walter Salles has directed from a Jose Rivera script, has sold to Canada, Scandinavia and Greece. MK2 is repping sales for the project, which it pre-sold to the U.K. (Icon), Germany (TMG) and Italy (Medusa).

Source: Variety

[John.]

Thanks for the info gkfi.

[gkfi]

My pleasure, John.

Speaking of the ON THE ROAD trailer screening in Cannes last Sunday, seems like the response were very positive.

And we now have a sneak peak at its first poster:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/304196132583401

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The 68th Venice Film Festival has released its initial program for premieres at the 2011 event, August 31-September 10, with several highly-anticipated films by Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg, Todd Solondz and Michael Winterbottom set for screening.
Some films which didn’t make Cannes in time are rushing to complete post-production in order to meet the submission deadline, June 24, and others await a decision.
Highlights among the early lineup of films include:
Roman Polanski’s Carnage starring Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants), Jodie Foster (The Beaver) and Kate Winslet (The Reader). This adaptation of the award-winning Broadway drama Gods of Carnage focuses on two couples who meet after their sons’ schoolyard brawl.
David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method, the story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, and their love triangle with a patient. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley.
Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna, starring Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), follows the tragic relationship between a property developer’s son and rickshaw owner’s daughter.
Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse, starring Mia Farrow and Christopher Walken
Steve McQueen’s Shame starring Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) and Carey Mulligan (An Education).
Documentaries include Cameron Crowe’s PJ20 about the band Pearl Jam, a work by Jonathan Demme (about Hurricane Katrina) and Fatih Akin’s Garbage in the Garden of Eden.
Foreign-language films include Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust starring Hanna Schygulla and Philippe Garrel’s Un été brûlant, a remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, starring Monica Bellucci in Brigitte Bardot’s role.
Films under consideration include two by Steven Spielberg, the drama War Horse and motion-capture animated tale The Adventures of Tintin. Also possible are two by Steven Soderbergh, Contagion with Matt Damon and Kate Winslet, and Haywire about a female black ops soldier, starring Ewan McGregor and Michael Fassbender.
Also, possibly vying for inclusion are George Clooney’s film, The Ides of March, which he directed and costars in with Ryan Gosling, and Walter Salles‘s On the Road about Jack Kerouac’s trip across America starring Kristen Stewart (‘Twlight Saga’) and Garrett Hedlund (Tron: Legacy).
Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky will head the jury for 2011′s Venice Film Festival. He previously won its Golden Lion for The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke.

The remainder of the lineup for the Venice Biennale’s Cinema section, including films in competition, will be announced during a July press conference from Rome.

Source: The Independent

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So apparently On the Road has completed, and word is Walter Salles is attending Venice Film Festival.