Trailer: Jack Kerouac – On The Road

Some novels seem tailor-made for adaption to the big screen, while others are considered sacred tomes to which people have a deep attachment. So I was feeling a bit of trepidation when I found out that Jack Kerouac’s influential and iconic semi-autobiographical travelogue On the Road, was finally headed to the big screen, after years of failed attempts to turn it into a feature film. What the new flick does have going for it is that the two leads, Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, are played by relatively unknown actors, rather than big name Hollywood stars. Judging from this trailer, director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) has seemingly captured the spirit of the signature work of the beat generation. Take a look…

On The Road (Movie Trailer)