Walter Salles

Promo Poster for ON THE ROAD

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 17th, 2011 at 7:52 am

It has taken decades to get Jack Kerouac’s On the Road on the big screens, but producer Francis Ford Coppola and director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) have finally done it. Filming took place last year and the movie will likely make the festival rounds this fall. However, you need to get past a cast that’s a mixture of “great” and “sometimes good”. In the “great” category, you have Viggo Mortensen, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, and Sam Riley. And then as lead characters Dean Moriarty, Marylou, and Camille, you have Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, and Kirsten Dunst, respectively. It’s a diverse cast and I’m hoping that they all deliver, but expectations tend to build when you’re adapting a modern literary classic.

Hit the jump to check out the promo poster (which features none of the cast or even drops their names) for On the Road.

New Images of Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund in Walter Salles’ ON THE ROAD

by Talia Soghomonian    Posted: February 3rd, 2011 at 10:22 am

The first set photos from the big screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel On the Road were published last November, and new images from the Walter Salles directed movie have finally been released.  The images show Salles’ choice of muted colors to depict the Sixties aesthetics and the smoky, hazy Beatnik ambience in which On the Road‘s heroes, Sal and Dean, evolve. Actors Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund look über-cool enough to play the lead roles of the Beat Generation’s most famous protagonists.  Hit the jump for the synopsis and images:

Alice Braga Exclusive Interview THE RITE; Plus an ON THE ROAD Update

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 23rd, 2011 at 12:38 pm

Opening next weekend is director Mikael Hafstroem’s (1408) supernatural thriller The Rite and it stars Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, and Toby Jones.  “Inspired by true events, The Rite follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (O’Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While in Rome, he meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith.”  For more on the film, watch some clips here.

Anyway, I recently got to sit down with Alice Braga and we talked about how she got involved in the film, what it was like to work with Anthony Hopkins, filming in Rome and Budapest, what she recommends if you visit Brazil, and she also told me about how she got involved in Walter Salles’ adaptation of On the Road, who she plays, and what it was like to make the film.  Hit the jump to read or listen to what she said:

New Set Photos from Walter Salles’ ON THE ROAD Starring Garrett Hedlund and Sam Riley

by Talia Soghomonian    Posted: November 18th, 2010 at 10:01 am

After a rough ride, On the Road is finally getting closer to completion. After the first set photos, new shots from director Walter Salles’ adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel have been released, and appear to perfectly transcribe the poetic energy and black-and-white imagery that the story inevitably conjures up, raising the question whether the movie will also be in black-and-white.

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, the film stars stars Garrett Hedlund (TRON: Legacy) and Sam Riley (Control) as Sal Paradise, the mystic Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise embark on a road trip across North America in search of adventure and freedom.  The cast also boasts a long, all-star cast, including Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Moretensen, Amy Adams, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss. Hit the jump to see the photos and find out more about On the Road.

First Image of Kristen Stewart in Walter Salles’ ON THE ROAD; Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss, Alice Braga, Terrence Howard to Co-Star

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: August 13th, 2010 at 9:20 am

An unofficial photo of Kristen Stewart as Marylou on the set of the long-in-development adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has landed online. The film co-stars Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty, Sam Riley as Sal Paradise, Kirsten Dunst as Camille, Amy Adams as Jane, and Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee.

Filming began on August 4th, and we received a press release announcing that Steve Buscemi, Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Alice Braga (Predators), Tom Sturridge (Pirate Radio), Danny Morgan (the TV show Off the Hook), and Terrence Howard.  However, we don’t know which roles they’ll be playing.  I’d be able to provide an educated guess but I haven’t read the book yet.  It’s currently sitting in a pile of other classic works of literature that I keep by my bed to make me feel bad about myself.

Hit the jump to check out the image and read the press release.  On the Road is due out in 2011.

Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen Join Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, and Garrett Hedlund ON THE ROAD

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: August 4th, 2010 at 7:38 pm

The cast of Walter Salles’ adaptation of the classic Jack Kerouac novel On the Road is rounding out nicely, as Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams have signed on to join stars Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, and Garrett Hedlund.  Mortensen will assume the role of Old Bull Lee (a William S. Burroughs surrogate), while Adams will play his junkie wife, Jane.  According to Deadline, Adams and Mortensen will shoot their scenes later this month.

Jose Rivera has scripted the adaptation, which revolves around a series of cross country trips taken by writer Sal Paradise (Riley).  Hit the jump for a richer synopsis.

Kristen Stewart Joins Upcoming Adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD

by Ramses Flores    Posted: May 6th, 2010 at 9:52 am

Kristen Stewart is joining Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries) upcoming adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.  USA Today (via The Playlist) reports that Stewart announced her involvement with the film after telling the newspaper that “I am very much attached to a movie that has been trying to get made forever. Not that this is going to help it, but maybe I can just brag a little bit. I am super excited about it, too. I am about to play Marylou in On the Road. So that’s a big deal.”

Seeing Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy) get cast as On The Road’s Dean Moriarity and now Stewart as Marylou, his young wife, is a great sign for fans of the novel who have been anticipating a film forever now.  Various directors, including Francis Ford Coppola, have tried to make a film based on Jack Kerouac’s beloved 1957 novel for the past 30 years with no luck.   Walter Salles seems to have figured it out though since filming is set to start this summer.  More info on On the Road after the jump.

Garrett Hedlund in Talks to Star in Walter Salles’ Adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 18th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy) is in negotiations to play the lead role of Dean Moriarty in Walter Salles’ (The Motorcycle Diaries) adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.  A film adaptation of the book, which was published in 1957, has been in development for years.  Francis Ford Coppola optioned the rights back in the 1970s.

In an interview in 2008 with CNN [via /Film], Salles said “I am not really interested in doing a period piece that wouldn’t have a correlation with what we are living right now. There is a strange modernity to the theme, and maybe On the Road is more contemporary today than it ever was.”

Production Weekly tweets that production is set to begin this summer.  Hit the jump to learn more about On the Road and the character of Dean Moriarty.

MOTORCYCLE DIARIES’ Walter Salles and Jose Rivera to Adapt AMERICAN RUST

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: October 19th, 2009 at 4:28 am

While Steven Soderbergh released his epic-that-no-one-saw, “Che”, I found 2004′s “The Motorcycle Diaries” to be an intimate and compelling of Che Guevara before he became Che Guevara.  It rarely felt like an origin story and it made Guevara’s tale one of “I succeeded and you didn’t because I was me and you are you.”  The duo of director Walter Salles and writer Jose Rivera made that film work (along with a terrific performance by Gael Garcia Bernal) and I’m thrilled to report that they’ll be re-teaming to adapt the novel, “American Rust”.  Hit the jump for details.

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