On the Road Update

Back in May, I posted about On the Road and how it was getting turned into a movie. At the time, it was supposed to be released in December of 2011. That didn't happen. It looks like the movie starring Sam Riley (from Control and 13) as Sal and Garrett Hedlund (from Tron: Legacy) as Dean will come out sometime this summer, or maybe even in May.

This little push back is nothing in comparison to the big picture. The movie industry has been talking about turning Jack Kerouac's novel into a film since the late 50s. The rights to the book were bought in 1979 and numerous screenplays have been written since then. A version was almost done in 2001 that would have had Colin Farrell in it. I'm kind of relieved that one never got made. I'm not sure how I feel about this movie version, but I'll still see it.

Here's the "official" trailer. And by the way, I hear they took the quotes from the original scroll, aka the unedited book. So don't freak out if they appear to be wrong.