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ON THE ROAD - Trailer of the movie adaptation (2012)
On The Road — 2012 — film version of the iconic novel finally hit the screen 65 years after the adventure, 61 years after the Scroll was written, 55 years after publication, 33 years after Coppola bought the rights, and 8 years after the director Walter Salles was approached; over 60,000 miles covered in the filming; ironically it took an international consortium to get this Great American Novel filmed — a Brazilian director, French producers and cinematographer and editor, British actors, Argentineans doing the art direction and score composition, a Puerto Rican screenwriter, and it was mostly filmed in Canada — dir. by Walter Salles — starring Sam Riley as Jack; Garrett Hedlund as Neal; Kristen Stewart as LuAnne; Kirsten Dunst as Carolyn; Tom Sturridge as Allen; Viggo Mortensen as Bill; Amy Adams as Joan; Danny Morgan as Al Hinkle, and Elisabeth Moss as Helen Hinkle. Also includes surprise appearances by Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, and Coati Mundi as Slim Gaillard.
Kill Your Darlings — 2013 — Allen Ginsberg’s coming of age story from entering Columbia through the David Kammerer killing, which was the subject of the early Kerouac/Burroughs co-authored novel “And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks”; the film’s title comes from the William Faulkner line, “In writing, you must kill your darlings,” meaning you sometimes have to delete your favorite passage for the betterment of the story — directed by first-timer John Krokidas — starring Daniel Radcliffe as Ginsberg; Dane DeHann as Lucien Carr; Jack Huston as Kerouac; Ben Foster as Burroughs; Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer; Kyra Sedgwick as Lucien’s mother; Elizabeth Olson as Edie Parker; and Jennifer Jason Leigh and David Cross as Ginsberg’s parents.
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