According to Deadline
NY,
Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen are joining Walter Salles’ adaptation of
On the Road.
If you haven’t read the classic novel, it’s a
mostly autobiographical tale of Karouac traveling cross-country with
his buddy Neal Cassady. He changed the names of all everyone on his trip
(he is referenced as Sal Paradise, Cassady as Dean Moriarty) as he attempts to figure out what life’s all about.
Adams
will appear as Jane (based on Joan Vollmer), and Mortensen will play
Old Bull Lee (based on William S. Burroughs). The couple is just a bit
dysfunctional and addled with all kinds of drugs, so it will be
interesting to see how the actors play off each other.
(Fun fact! Vollmer was murdered by
Burroughs, who was attempting to drunkenly shoot an apple off her head,
William Tell-style.)
They
join the previously
reported
main cast of Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund. The film
just began production yesterday.
6 comments
That's pretty cool that it was really an apple. I wonder why they changed it to a shot glass in the Naked Lunch movie?
Because it was actually a shot glass in real life. Alex needs to check his facts a little.
Karouac had one good novel in him. He's no William Faulkner. When is that gonna happen? The Coen brothers need to do some Faulkner movies.
Kerouac planned the story arc of the novel before he ever took the trip al
Yes, refer to Naked Lunch, please. Nonetheless, really excited about this one.
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