"On The Road" Moving To Gatineau, Quebec

The film, currently filming in Montreal, is featuring Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings, The Road), Kristen Stewart (Twilight), Amy Adams (Enchanted, Julie & Julia) and Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man). British Sam Riley (Law & Order ") which embodies the alter egos of Kerouac, Sal Paradise, while Garrett Hedlund (Four Brothers, Tron Legacy) lent his features to his traveling companion Neal Cassady and mentor, also known as Dean Moriarty.

Around a hundred actors - including some of main cast - and technicians will be visiting for three days and three nights in the region for the purpose of the feature film directed by Brazilian Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries). Some streets of Old Hull will be blocked to facilitate filming in the area. Between 20 and 30 local people will also be hired to complete the crew.

Largely autobiographical, written from a single jet in three weeks in a spontaneous prose in April 1951 - we discovered that Kerouac had written a draft in French, his native language, beforehand - and published in 1957, On The Road is considered an iconic novel of the "Beat Generation". The work reports of wandering and the initial quest for a new lifestyle Kerouac on American roads, he has crisscrossed New York to San Francisco to Chicago and Louisiana, along with Cassady.

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