Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen On the Road
Viggo Mortensen can’t seem to get off the road. With last year’s Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road and now a film version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, he also seems to be latching on to great literary works for the furtherance of his film career. Nothing new there, and a smart idea if you ask me, seeing as how Hollywood so often has trouble with original ideas.
Deadline reports that in the Francis Ford Coppola-produced adaptation, Mortensen will star alongside Amy Adams, a natural candidate for the “America’s Sweetheart” title. Mortensen plays Old Bull Lee, while Adams steps into the role of his junkie wife Jane. The team of Walter Salles and Jose Rivera, whom you may remember from The Motorcycle Diaries seems like an inspired choice for the respective director and writer reigns. Production began today, so it won’t be long now, Kerouac fans.
About Aric Mitchell: Aric Mitchell is a full-time freelance writer, film critic, author, and journalist living in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Specialties include feature writing, reporting, search engine optimization, entertainment, humor, and issues of general interest to men. Credits include The Rugged, inStash, The City Wire, Flickchart, Break Media, and print magazine Celebrate Arkansas. He also makes his horror debut with the graphic novel anthology Grave Conditions from Haunted Computer.
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