A big thank you to Alma for the heads up on these! Here are the first images from “On The Road” via Comme Au Cinema. How great does Kristen look?!
Gallery Link: 2011: On the Road > Film Stills
A big thank you to Alma for the heads up on these! Here are the first images from “On The Road” via Comme Au Cinema. How great does Kristen look?!
Gallery Link: 2011: On the Road > Film Stills
Sorry about the lack of updates! News has been quiet in Kristen world, but stay tuned for “Eclipse” DVD captures, as well as other goodies.
Here’s a new interview with Kristen’s “On the Road” co-star, Garrett Hedlund, where he has some very nice words to say!
“Now with ‘On the Road,’ getting to work with Walter Salles, who I owe such a tremendous amount to because he gives me so much,” he explained of the “Motorcycle Diaries” director. “He fulfills me with so much other people haven’t been able to do, and he does it so simply.”
Hedlund went on to say that “Road” will be full color not black-and-white, which had been rumored, and he called the experience, fittingly, “a long journey.”
Regarding Kristen Stewart, Hedlund had nothing but the highest compliments to pay his co-star.“[She is] incredible, and in this, everyone is going to get to see how hard a worker she is, the devotion that she puts into her work,” Hedlund enthused. “And her performance is going to be exposed highly in this.”
Hedlund added that the entire cast is packed with talent. “Everybody, Sam Riley is phenomenal, we’ve had a lot of wonderful surprises in having people like Viggo Mortenson, Amy Adams, Elisabeth Moss join us,” he said. “Most recently, Steve Buscemi and Terrence Howard. Alice Braga, it’s been phenomenal, it’s been quite the family.”
Check out his entire interview here at MTV!
Here are two photos of Kristen, along with co-stars Garrett Hedlund, Tom Sturridge, and Sam Riley, behind the scenes on “On the Road” production, courtesy of John Allen Cassady.
Gallery Link: 2011: On the Road > Behind the Scenes
John Allen Cassady was in England visiting his mother, Carolyn Cassady, when he got the call from Walter Salles, Director of “On The Road”. Walter wanted to know if John would be willing to interrupt his visit with Carolyn so he could meet and give a talk to the cast and crew of the movie while they were filming in Montreal. Walter promised a round trip flight from London to Montreal and that John would be back at his mum’s place in a few days. John only wanted to know one thing: “Will I get to meet Kristen Stewart?” He was assured he’d meet everyone so John boarded that silver bird.
Read the rest here.
If you missed it, here is Kristen’s interview with MTV today. It’s pretty fun and touches on everything from the obvious WTTR to filming “On the Road” to ‘Krisbians.’ Watch it below or here on MTV. Captures are also up in the gallery.
Gallery Link: 10.18.10: MTV Rough Cut
Thanks to E! Online we have some lovely words from Kristen’s On the Road co-star, Amy Adams.
Amy Adams was very popular recently with the young people in her life.
You see, she recently spent four days in New Orleans shooting On the Road with Twilight star Kristen Stewart…
“I got requests for autographs, and I didn’t ask for a single one,” Adams told me yesterday at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she was honored for her work with the Bronx-based Ghetto Film School.
Why?
Adams may be a 36-year-old two-time Academy Award-nominee and mother of one, but when it comes to teen, she said, “I guess I’m getting to the point in my life where I’m suspicious of teenagers and I’m intimidated a little bit.”
Yes, Adams knows Stewart is 20 years old. “She’s not a teenager but she’s close enough and I was very intimidated,” Adams said.
Adams is a fan of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire book series. “I told [Stewart] I read the books and she was like, ‘You’ve read the books?,’ ” Adams recalled. “She couldn’t compute it, but you have to imagine I was playing this sort of bedraggled drug addict so I’m she was like, ‘That doesn’t seem like the audience.’ But she was incredibly gracious and lovely.”
Given limited distribution for some of Kstew’s other recent indie flicks (e.g., “The Runaways”, “Welcome to the Rileys”) it is encouraging news that makers of the upcoming film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” have already announced far-reaching distribution plans.
Heard recently at Cannes and confirmed via IMDB Pro, Icon Film Distribution of Great Britain and Icon Film Distribution of Australia were announced as regional distributors of the film. For the Great Britain branch, this translates to theatrical distribution in Ireland and all media distribution in the UK. For the Australian arm, this means theatrical distribution in New Zealand and all media distribution in Australia.
Other distribution rights for the film had already been sold to other regions—Cinearts holds rights for Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux), and Concorde Filmverleih for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein.
In addition to Kristen, who has been confirmed for the role of Marylou (widely known to be parallel real-life associate of Kerouac, Luanne Henderson), other confirmed cast members for “On the Road” include Kirsten Dunst (as Camille), Sam Riley (as Sal Paradise), and Garrret Hedlund (as protagonist Dean Moriarty).
The film is a portrayal of Kerouac’s own Beatnik experience, which rejected social norms of materialism while embracing taboos around sexuality and drugs. TIME Magazine critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo named “On the Road” among the 100 Best American Novels written since 1923, calling it “the book that launched a thousand trips”.
Thanks to fiercebitchstew for the heads up. Congrats to Kristen!
Looks as if Kristen Stewart is going On the Road. And not just because she is doing publicity for the latest Twilight film, Eclipse, opening June 30.
As she told USA TODAY’s Susan Wloszczyna today while in Chicago for an Oprah taping, “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.”
Filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola and Gus Van Sant have struggled for years to bring Jack Kerouac’s classic 1957 tale of disaffected members of the Beat Generation to the big screen. Tron: Legacy’s Garrett Hedland will play the confused drifter Dean Moriarity with Stewart as his young wife and British actor Sam Riley (Control) as his traveling pal, Sal. Brazilian director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) will direct. Filming is expected to start this summer.