AMC Networks has acquired all US rights to filmmaker Walter Salles’ On the Road.The project, based on the iconic counterculture novel by Jack Kerouac, is finally preparing to be released thanks to AMC who will release the film through its distribution labels IFC Films and Sundance Selects.
The film stars Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst. Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss and Viggo Mortensen also appear.
The screenplay was written by Jose Rivera (Academy Award nominee for The Motorcycle Diaries).
The film’s world premiere will be at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, followed by a major theatrical release in late fall.
AMC will attempt to make the premiere a big event.
This is a major step forward for us, and we plan to work across AMC Networks in putting all our resources together to make this theatrical release into a significant cultural event,” Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films said. “We will show the same passion in releasing this film as the team took behind producing it.
The novel’s official plot synopsis follows:
On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac’s works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kerouac’s writing, On The Road is thinly fictionalized autobiography, filled with a cast made of Kerouac’s real life friends, lovers, and fellow travelers. Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac’s alter-egos, On the Road is a cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced writing in the years since its 1957 publication but penetrated into the deepest levels of American thought and culture.
The full cast list includes:
- Sam Riley as Sal Paradise
- Garrett Hedlund as Dean Moriarty
- Kristen Stewart as Marylou
- Kirsten Dunst as Camille
- Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee
- Amy Adams as Jane
- Tom Sturridge as Carlo Marx
- Steve Buscemi
- Elisabeth Moss as Galatea Dunkel
- Matthew Deano as Little Ray
- Alice Braga as Terry
- Danny Morgan as Ed Dunkel
- Terrence Howard as Walter
- Patrick Costello as Chad King
- Joey Klein as Tom Saybrook
- Alison Louder as Dorie
- Clara Furey as Inez
- Adam LeBlanc as Remi Boncoeur
- Jake La Botz as the Okie Hitchhiker
- Rocky Marquette as Alfred
- Imogen Haworth
- Marie-Ginette Guay as Gabrielle Levesque (Aunt of Sal Paradise)
- Giovanna Zacarías as Puta Loca Roja
- Kaniehtiio Horn as Rita Bettancourt
- Joe Chrest as Virginia Cop
Check out the official trailer below:
