On the Road (film)

On the Road (film)
On the Road
Directed by Walter Salles
Produced by Rebecca Yeldham
Nathanael Karmitz
Charles Gillibert
Screenplay by Jose Rivera
Based on On the Road by
Jack Kerouac
Starring Sam Riley
Garrett Hedlund
Kristen Stewart
Kirsten Dunst
Viggo Mortensen
Amy Adams
Music by Gustavo Santaolalla
Cinematography Éric Gautier
Studio American Zoetrope
MK2
Film4
Distributed by Icon Film Distribution (UK)
MK2 (France)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $25 million

On the Road is a 2012 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 traveling America in the 1940's 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.

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Cast

Character key

"Because of the objections of my early publishers I was not allowed to use the same person's name in each work." [3]
Actor[4] Character name
Jack Kerouac Sal Paradise
Gabrielle Kerouac (Jack's mother) Sal's aunt
Alan Ansen Rollo Greb
William S. Burroughs Old Bull Lee
Joan Vollmer Jane
Lucien Carr Damion
Neal Cassady Dean Moriarty
Carolyn Cassady Camille
Hal Chase Chad King
Henri Cru Remi Boncoeur
Bea Franco Terry
Allen Ginsberg Carlo Marx
Diana Hansen Inez
Alan Harrington Hal Hingham
Joan Haverty Laura
Luanne Henderson Marylou
Al Hinkle Ed Dunkel
Helen Hinkle Galatea Dunkel
Jim Holmes Tom Snark
John Clellon Holmes Tom Saybrook
Herbert Huncke Elmer Hassel
Frank Jeffries Stan Shephard
Gene Pippin Gene Dexter
Ed Stringham Tom Saybrook
Allan Temko Roland Major
Bill Tomson Roy Johnson
Helen Tomson Dorothy Johnson
Ed Uhl Ed Wall

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 suggested 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".[5] Brando never responded to the letter and later on Warner Brothers offered $110,000 for the rights to Kerouac's book but his agent, Sterling Lord, turned it down. Lord hoped for $150,000 from Paramount Pictures, which wanted to cast Brando in the film. The deal did not happen and Kerouac was angered that his agent asked for too much money.[5]

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola bought the rights in 1979.[6] 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".[6] 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.[6]

Pre-production

Coppola saw The Motorcycle Diaries and hired Brazilian director Walter Salles to direct the film.[6] 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".[7] 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.[8] Coppola's American Zoetrope is producing the film, in association with MK2, Film4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil.[9]

Before filming began on August 2, 2010, in Montreal, Canada, with a $25 million budget,[9][10] the entire cast underwent a three-week "beatnik boot camp," according to Stewart, which involved reading literature pertaining to the Beat Generation[11] 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.[12] After a month of shooting Montreal, the production will move to New Orleans where it will shoot for a month before moving to Mexico for several weeks before returning to Montreal to wrap the final scenes.[13]

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.[9][14] Kristen Stewart will play Mary Lou,[15] and Kirsten Dunst will play Camille.[16] 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).[17] English actor Tom Sturridge has been cast as Carlo Marx (Allen Ginsberg), poet and friend to both Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty.[18]

Salles has reunited with some of the crew members that 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.[19]

Principal photography

Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Canada.[20] Filming continued on location in Gatineau, Quebec, on August 17, [21] where the city is standing in for Denver, Colorado in 1947.[22] The film shot for five days in the middle of October 2010 in and around Calgary, Alberta.[23] 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.[24] In addition, the production also shot in Argentina and Chile with actor Garrett Hedlund, at one point, filming a scene where 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.[25]

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".[26] Cinematographer Eric Gautier shot several scenes with a hand-held camera and Salles encouraged the cast to improvise and "to make scenes flow and have a rhythm," said Hedlund.[25]

References

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External links

v · d · eWorks by Jack Kerouac
Fiction
The Town and the City (1950) · On the Road (1957) · The Subterraneans (1958) · The Dharma Bums (1958) · Doctor Sax (1959) · Maggie Cassidy (1959) · Book of Dreams (1960) · Tristessa (1960) · Visions of Cody (1960) · Lonesome Traveler (1960) · Big Sur (1962) · Visions of Gerard (1963) · Desolation Angels (1965) · Satori in Paris (1966) · Vanity of Duluoz (1968) · Pic (1971) · Orpheus Emerged (2002) · And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (2008; with William S. Burroughs)
Poetry
Other books
Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings (1991) · Good Blonde & Others (1993) · Beat Generation (2005)
Audio
Poetry for the Beat Generation (1959) · Blues and Haikus (1960) · Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation (1960) · The Jack Kerouac Collection (1990) · Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road (1999)
Bibliography · Duluoz Legend
v · d · eFilms directed by Walter Salles
1990s
A Grande Arte (1991) · Foreign Land (1996) · Central Station (1998) · Midnight (1998)
2000s
Behind the Sun (2001) · The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) · Dark Water (2005) · Linha de Passe (2008)
2010s
On the Road (2011)
v · d · eFrancis Ford Coppola
1960s
Dementia 13 (1963) · You're a Big Boy Now (1966) · Finian's Rainbow (1968) · The Rain People (1969)
1970s
The Godfather (1972) · The Conversation (1974) · The Godfather Part II (1974) · Apocalypse Now (1979)
1980s
One from the Heart (1982) · The Outsiders (1983) · Rumble Fish (1983) · The Cotton Club (1984) · Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) · Gardens of Stone (1987) · Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
1990s
The Godfather Part III (1990) · Dracula (1992) · Jack (1996) · The Rainmaker (1997)
2000s
Youth Without Youth (2007) · Tetro (2009)
2010s
Twixt (2011)
Short films
Captain EO (1986) · Life Without Zoe (1989)
Credits
Patton (writer, 1970) · THX 1138 (executive producer, 1971) · American Graffiti (producer, 1973) · The Great Gatsby (writer, 1974) · The Black Stallion (executive producer, 1979) · Kagemusha (executive producer for the international version, 1980) · Hammett (producer, 1982) · Koyaanisqatsi (producer, 1982) · The Black Stallion Returns (executive producer, 1983) · Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (producer, 1985) · Tough Guys Don't Dance (executive producer, 1987) · Lionheart (executive producer, 1987)  · Powaqqatsi (executive producer, 1989) · Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (appearance, 1991) · The Junky's Christmas (producer, 1993) · Frankenstein (producer, 1994) · Don Juan DeMarco (producer, 1995) · Lani Loa – The Passage (producer, 1998) · The Florentine (producer, 1999) · The Virgin Suicides (producer, 1999) · Sleepy Hollow (producer, 1999) · CQ (executive producer, 2001) · Jeepers Creepers (executive producer, 2001) · Lost in Translation (executive producer, 2003) · Jeepers Creepers 2 (executive producer, 2003) · Kinsey (executive producer, 2004) · The Good Shepherd (executive producer, 2006) · Marie Antoinette (executive producer, 2006) · Somewhere (executive producer, 2010) · On the Road (producer, 2011)
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