CAST AND CREW
Director

Walter Salles
On the Road
Release Date: 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: Focus Features (Universal)
Film Genre: Road Movie
Country: United States

 
Based on Jack Kerouac classic 1957 novel, which played a role in giving rise to the Beat movement, is narrated by Kerouac's thinly veiled alter ego Sal Paradise, who gets inspired to hit the road and see America. The story follows his ups and downs as he hitchhikes, hops trains, meets other travelers, struggles for meals and explores the themes of freedom and longing.
 
 
MOVIE NEWS ITEMS
2005-08-05
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Walter Salles will direct the project which is being produced by American Zoetrope. Screenwriter Jose Rivera is adapting the book and Rebecca Yeldham will produce. Salles' reteams with Focus Features and Pathe International, two companies that worked together on the director's award-winning "Diaries" will jointly control the worldwide distribution rights to the pic. Casting and production is expected to begin in 2006.
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