Kristen Stewart is about to introduce her generation to the Beat Generation. She’ll be staring in a movie based on ’50s Beat writer Jack Kerouac’s novel, “On the Road” which helped launch the ’60s-era counterculture."The Twilight” actress is on board for Walter Salles’ movie adaptation of the seminal novel, and will begin shooting in August, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In Stewart’s most recent non-Twilight film, “The Runaways,” she played pioneer 70s-era rocker Joan Jett with Dakota Fanning.
Stewart will play Mary Lou, the on-again, off-again wife of Dean Moriarty, who is based on Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady. The Beat Generation icon was also featured in classic ’60s books “Hell’s Angels” by Hunter S. Thompson and “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” by Tom Wolfe.
Cassady also lived briefly with ’60s’ jam band “The Grateful Dead” and is immortalized in their song “The Other One” as the bus driver “Cowboy Neal.”
Salles will be joined by Oscar nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera, with whom he collaborated on “The Motorcycle Diaries.”
The book is a based on road trips that Kerouac and his friends took across America. The book had a huge influence on many poets, writers, actors and musicians, who came of age during the period, including Bob Dylan and Doors singer Jim Morrison.
“It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s,” Dylan once said source
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