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Viggo Mortensen Heads Back On The Road

Mortensen and Amy Adams join the cast of "On The Road" adaptation.

By Eric Pope  |  Aug. 5, 2010


Method actor Mortensen seen here prepping his role as a garbage bag in an upcoming film.
Method actor Mortensen seen here prepping his role as a garbage bag in an upcoming film.
According to Deadline, Viggo Mortensen and Amy Adams have joined the cast of On The Road. Francis Ford Coppola is producing this film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's Beat novel, and in fact has been trying to get it made for over 30 years now. 
 
Directed by Walter Salles and written by Jose Rivera (who last collaborated on The Motorcycle Diaries), On the Road follows Jack Kerouac's journey of self-realization across North America with his friend Neil Cassady. 
 
Adams plays the role of Jane, the junkie mother of two kids married to Mortensen's Old Bull Lee. They join the previously announced cast of Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, and Garrett Hedlund. This will be one to keep an eye on.
Filed under: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Jose Rivera, Walter Salles, Francis Ford Coppola, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen
11 Comments
MrPilkingtonon Aug. 5, 2010 at 10:12 a.m.

onomonopia...there I am now done with your quest sur!
Lihtsteron Aug. 5, 2010 at 10:36 a.m.
Love Viggo, almost every movie that he is in seems to turn out well.
Arjunaon Aug. 5, 2010 at 10:44 a.m.
@Lihtster said:

" Love Viggo, almost every movie that he is in seems to turn out well. "

This is an understatement. 
 
I can't believe how amazing Viggo is, and the top-players he gets himself associated with. 
 
oh, and On The Road is The Great American Novel, up there with Moby Dick.  I love Kerouac.  I'm more partial towards the Dharma Bums, but On The Road will do, hehehe
MarkWahlbergon Aug. 5, 2010 at 10:53 a.m.
One cannot merely go on a road trip into Mordor!
Martin_Blankon Aug. 5, 2010 at 10:56 a.m.
Damn, I just got a flashback of The Road. Now I'm depressed.
ethan staff on Aug. 5, 2010 at 11:23 a.m.
Viggo could do this movie well.  But somehow I feel this is a movie we don't need?  Am I crazy?  I loved this book when I was in college and as a young dude it totally influence my travel and writing habits.
 
Saying that Im looking forward to seeing Franco in Howl
namdevkldon Aug. 5, 2010 at 12:06 p.m.

I enthusiastically agree with you Ethan, but in all honesty, I am hopeful that this will simply be an adaptation and nothing more and moreover, a chance for others to pick up the book and read, read, read.  

Howl: yeah…me too.

blaakmawfon Aug. 5, 2010 at 1:32 p.m.
I liked the book.
frytheflyon Aug. 5, 2010 at 3:13 p.m.
Best bag performance to date? Werner Herzog as a plastic bag in Plastic Bag directed by Ramin Bahrani:
 
 
 
Bones8677on Aug. 5, 2010 at 3:23 p.m.
Viggo Mortensen to star in On The Road...not to be confused with his latest role in, The Road...this a sequel or somethin'? 
 
Will his next movie be, On The Road Again? A Willie Nelson Biopic?
Hawkeyeon Aug. 5, 2010 at 4:12 p.m.
I could have sworn that was Cary Elwes in that picture above the article.

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