Movie Preview: On the Road

Release date: December 2011 – Early 2012

Genre: Book adaptation, drama

Director: Walter Salles, produced by Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Steward, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Steve Buscemi and Amy Adams.

On the Road is the upcoming cinematic adaption of Jack Kerouac’s classic beats generation novel of the same name. It traces a series of journeys across America in the late 1950s from the view point of Sal Paradise (played by Sam Riley) the novel and film’s incarnation of Jack Kerouac. Along with Dean Moriarty (played by Garrett Hedlund) and various other characters, he embarks on adventure after adventure. The film starts out with Dean’s cataclysmic arrival in New York City and meeting with Carlo Marx, who is the Roman a clef for fellow beats generation writer Allen Ginsburg. Soon afterwards, Sal makes his first trip to visit his friend on the west coast, Remi Bonceour, with the intention of travelling the world. When the plan comes to an end, what follows is a series of unconstrained adventures culminating in a wild trip to Mexico and reflection on life.

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