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Reaction to OTR Trailer/Jerry Cimino from The Beat Museum
Garrett Minds‘ friend Jerry Cimino has written his reaction to OTR trailer. Here is a part of it, please make sure you visit the Huffington Post site to read the rest!
On The Road Movie Trailer Promises an Adaptation Worthy of Kerouac
Controversy has raged for decades among Beat Generation fans as to whether this movie should even have been attempted. I can understand both sides of the argument. On The Road is a very personal novel for many, many people. At the Beat Museum, located in San Francisco, we see people from every corner of the world walk through our doors daily who are on their own personal journey kick-started by their reading of Kerouac’s books. On The Road holds a very special place in the hearts of many of these people and they don’t want their vision of Kerouac’s book (and their own personal journeys) messed with.
The flipside of that argument, of course, is that On The Road must be made into a film. Jack Kerouac himself sent a letter to Marlon Brando back in 1959 imploring Brando to make the film. Kerouac understood that a novel is not a movie and he even told Brando he was willing to write the screenplay himself incorporating whatever accommodations and changes needed for the story of the book to work as a film.
In 2012 that argument still has not subsided. But with the release of the trailer for Walter Salles’ film adaptation of On The Road I believe the filmmakers have magnificently met their obligation to the true fan and to their own artistic callings.
Captured in this 1.45-minute trailer is all the energy, drive, excitement and uncertainty of the book itself. The raw sexuality of Garrett Hedlund as Neal Cassady and Kristen Stewart as his 16-year-old bride, Lu Anne Henderson. From the dance halls of New York to the hotel rooms of Denver to the whorehouses of Mexico, Kerouac’s words come alive on the screen.
Source - Huffington Post
Via Mr Hedlund
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On The Road Official Trailer Is Here!
And the day has come! The On The Road Trailer have been released via OTR Official Facebook Page! 
It’s absolutely stunning! Let us know what you think!
‘On The Road’ Official Trailer | Kristen Stewar…, posted with vodpod
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On The Road Trailer Coming This Friday!!!
Exciting news! The On The Road trailer will be posted this Friday 9th of March at 16:00 CET via OTR Official Facebook Page! LIKE!
Cannot wait to see it!
Thanks to @KerouacDotCom!
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New ‘On the Road’ Poster And Still
Finally! There is an official Facebook and Twitter for the On The Road movie! FOLLOW FOLLOW FOLLOW! 
And here is the amazing new poster and still!
Source for poster and picture – Official On The Road Facebook Page. There is more amazing stills over there so go and check them out!
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On the Road 4 Kerouac Project Trailer
Noemie from OnTheRoadMovieFr put together this amazing trailer for On the Road 4 Kerouac project that Laura and Elle from Garrett Minds are helping with. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out and spread the word!
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Arrival of the ’49 Hudson – Video!
Garrett Hedlund (portraying Neal Cassady in the upcoming film adaptation of Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’, directed by Walter Salles) drove from Los Angeles to San Francisco on December 7th, 2011 to deliver the 1949 Hudson used in the movie to The Beat Museum. Accompanying Hedlund were John Allen Cassady (son of the real Neal) and Al Hinkle (‘Big Ed Dunkel’ in the book, and the last living man to have accompanied Jack & Neal).
The 1949 Hudson is now on ongoing public display at the Beat Museum.
What a great video! Thanks to Jerry and the Beat Museum for keeping our Garrett Minds ladies updated!
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’49 Hudson, Garrett and Al Hinkle Come to the Beat Museum!
The ’49 Hudson Comes to the Beat Museum
Neal Cassady’s legendary ‘49 Hudson, made famous in Jack Kerouac’s novel On The Road, is lost to posterity. Other than Jack’s description of it in the novel (to the point where it is almost a character in the book) and the memory of it in the minds of Neal’s wife Carolyn Cassady and his friend Al Hinkle (‘Big Ed Dunkel’ in the book) there is nothing tangible that can prove it ever even existed. There is no bill of sale, no vehicle identification number, no license plate—not even a photograph. It’s memory is kept alive in the mind of the reader.
And perhaps this is the way it should be. The ‘49 Hudson represents a dream, and dreams are malleable. The Hudson represents Freedom and Desire and “Go, go, go…” as Neal would say, so perhaps it is fitting that you can’t really touch it. The Hudson represents anticipation, the joy of being alive in the world and heading towards that next horizon. It’s an inner journey that is experienced in the external world. In other times the vehicle for this exploration might have been a sailing ship, a white horse in the Cowboy West, or in the future, Hans Solo’s Millennium Falcon.
So none of us can really see the actual ‘49 Hudson that Jack & Neal drove across America. Because there is no tangible record of it, some car collector might be showcasing it as the pride of his collection, yet unaware of its lineage. That, or it might be rusting away in some junkyard in Mexico, or as Neal and Carolyn’s son, John Allen Cassady, is fond of saying, “It’s probably at the bottom of some ravine in the hills of California.”
Your Chance to See the ‘49 Hudson
Today, however—thanks to the generosity of Walter Salles and the good folks involved in the production of the upcoming movie, On The Road—you can see the next best thing. You can come to The Beat Museum and see the one ‘49 Hudson that matters. You can come see the actual car that was used in the shooting of the movie, On The Road.
You gotta love this car! When you see her, there’s a reverence in the room. Garret Hedlund (portraying Neal Cassady in the upcoming film) drove this car all over the country for the primary shoot, and then he and Walter took a 4,000 mile roadtrip from coast to coast and border to border to capture the scenery of America (see that story here: 4000 Miles in a ’49 Hudson).
In December of 2010, when the cast and crew were in San Francisco to shoot the final scenes for the movie, Walter Salles took my wife and I aside and said, “You two have built a magnificent place where people can come and learn about the spirit of The Beat Generation, and you’re encouraging people to read of all these unique cats’ books. And we want to do the same thing in our own way. You’re doing it with a museum, we’re doing it with a movie. So, we’ve decided that when we’re finished with the car, it is going to permanently reside at The Beat Museum. We may come and get it from time to time, maybe for the premier or for some other kind of promotion, but as far as we’re concerned this is its home. The ‘49 Hudson belongs at The Beat Museum.”
Well, there’s not much you can say after someone makes you an offer like that! We were thrilled to the moon, of course, and we started making plans as to how we were going to manage all that. Walter and company held onto the car, of course, in order to do that second unit shoot back in April of 2011, and then they took the car in-studio so they could record the sounds of the engine roaring and the tires squealing. It had to be the actual car making those noises; that’s just the kind of authentic filmmaker Walter Salles is.
You’ll notice in the photographs there is dust and dirt all over the car. The hand prints are from when the mechanics were working on it. Walter told me, “Jerry, when you display the car, don’t let anyone wash her. That’s the original road dirt and grime that represents her 5,000 mile journey across America.”
About a month ago Walter contacted me from Brazil and said, “Jerry, I was going to have the Hudson shipped to you on a flatbed truck, but when I was speaking with Garrett, he said, ‘No, I want to drive it up from LA and personally deliver it to The Beat Museum.’”
The next day I get a call from Garrett Hedlund. “Do you have John Cassady’s phone number? I want to call John and invite him and Al Hinkle to drive with me as we make the roadtrip together to deliver the Hudson.”
Talk about classy. Everyone who has been involved in this movie production is nothing but a class act. John Cassady and Al Hinkle were both thrilled to be asked to participate, of course. Neal Cassady’s son and his childhood friend from Denver who was actually a character in the book in the car with the actor playing Neal Cassady.
So, the big day finally came for the arrival of The ‘49 Hudson at The Beat Museum. The Hudson ran strong and true as John and Garrett screamed up the Pacific Coast Highway from LA on their way to SF. They made a stop in San Jose to pick up Al Hinkle, and Al’s daughter, Dawn, followed in a chase car as they drove the last sixty miles to The Beat Museum.
We held up traffic and blocked off Broadway and Columbus as we positioned the mighty machine to jump two sets of curbs with some specially designed ramps we had built. People on the street stopped and gawked. They didn’t know it was Garrett and John and Al in the the ‘49 Hudson. All they saw was this glorious old classic car driving through the front entrance of a building. Garrett needed to maneuver her around a bit to get around all the support beams and pillars, then jumped out of the drivers seat to hugs and celebrations all around.
Your Chance to See the ‘49 Hudson
Today, however—thanks to the generosity of Walter Salles and the good folks involved in the production of the upcoming movie, On The Road—you can see the next best thing. You can come to The Beat Museum and see the one ‘49 Hudson that matters. You can come see the actual car that was used in the shooting of the movie, On The Road.
You gotta love this car! When you see her, there’s a reverence in the room. Garret Hedlund (portraying Neal Cassady in the upcoming film) drove this car all over the country for the primary shoot, and then he and Walter took a 4,000 mile roadtrip from coast to coast and border to border to capture the scenery of America (see that story here: 4000 Miles in a ’49 Hudson).
In December of 2010, when the cast and crew were in San Francisco to shoot the final scenes for the movie, Walter Salles took my wife and I aside and said, “You two have built a magnificent place where people can come and learn about the spirit of The Beat Generation, and you’re encouraging people to read of all these unique cats’ books. And we want to do the same thing in our own way. You’re doing it with a museum, we’re doing it with a movie. So, we’ve decided that when we’re finished with the car, it is going to permanently reside at The Beat Museum. We may come and get it from time to time, maybe for the premier or for some other kind of promotion, but as far as we’re concerned this is its home. The ‘49 Hudson belongs at The Beat Museum.”
Well, there’s not much you can say after someone makes you an offer like that! We were thrilled to the moon, of course, and we started making plans as to how we were going to manage all that. Walter and company held onto the car, of course, in order to do that second unit shoot back in April of 2011, and then they took the car in-studio so they could record the sounds of the engine roaring and the tires squealing. It had to be the actual car making those noises; that’s just the kind of authentic filmmaker Walter Salles is.
You’ll notice in the photographs there is dust and dirt all over the car. The hand prints are from when the mechanics were working on it. Walter told me, “Jerry, when you display the car, don’t let anyone wash her. That’s the original road dirt and grime that represents her 5,000 mile journey across America.”
About a month ago Walter contacted me from Brazil and said, “Jerry, I was going to have the Hudson shipped to you on a flatbed truck, but when I was speaking with Garrett, he said, ‘No, I want to drive it up from LA and personally deliver it to The Beat Museum.’”
The next day I get a call from Garrett Hedlund. “Do you have John Cassady’s phone number? I want to call John and invite him and Al Hinkle to drive with me as we make the roadtrip together to deliver the Hudson.”
Talk about classy. Everyone who has been involved in this movie production is nothing but a class act. John Cassady and Al Hinkle were both thrilled to be asked to participate, of course. Neal Cassady’s son and his childhood friend from Denver who was actually a character in the book in the car with the actor playing Neal Cassady.
So, the big day finally came for the arrival of The ‘49 Hudson at The Beat Museum. The Hudson ran strong and true as John and Garrett screamed up the Pacific Coast Highway from LA on their way to SF. They made a stop in San Jose to pick up Al Hinkle, and Al’s daughter, Dawn, followed in a chase car as they drove the last sixty miles to The Beat Museum.
We held up traffic and blocked off Broadway and Columbus as we positioned the mighty machine to jump two sets of curbs with some specially designed ramps we had built. People on the street stopped and gawked. They didn’t know it was Garrett and John and Al in the the ‘49 Hudson. All they saw was this glorious old classic car driving through the front entrance of a building. Garrett needed to maneuver her around a bit to get around all the support beams and pillars, then jumped out of the drivers seat to hugs and celebrations all around.
Cimino shares with us that the car is on display now and a new exhibit is being built around it. He also says that so far a few hundred people have seen it and people can’t believe it’s the car from the movie.
Source – Kerouac.com
Massive thanks to Jerry Cimino from the Beat Museum for sharing this great stuff with the Garrett Minds ladies Elle and Laura! It’s such an exciting and interesting read!
And also please follow Al Hinkle on Facebook here and check out his website here!
Via MrHedlund!
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4,000 Miles in a ’49 Hudson: On The Road Exclusive
Walter Salles and His Quest for Authenticity in the Screen Adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road
Francis Ford Coppola has owned the movie rights to Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel On The Road for decades. And frankly most of us who love the book and Kerouac’s legacy and have been discussing the possibility of a movie for years took great solace from the fact that the movie was in the caring hands of Francis Coppola. He just seemed to be the kind of guy who would either make the movie “right” or he wouldn’t make it at all.
Numerous scripts have been written over the years, one by Barry Gifford, one by Russell Banks, one even by Coppola’s own son Roman. None made the cut. The problem seemed to be exactly how you translate the story of On The Road to film.
One issue was the way Francis Coppola wanted to make the film. Rumor had it Coppola wanted unknown actors playing the two main characters Dean Moriarity and Sal Paradise (Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac in real life). The studios wanted Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Colin Farrell — or some other bankable name depending on the decade. Coppola wanted black and white and the studios wanted color. Nobody seemed to know which way it was going to go and for thirty years the movie simply never got made.
And then along came Motorcycle Diaries. Screenwriter Jose Riviera was nominated for an Academy Award. Walter Salles, the Brazilian Director, won accolades as well. Francis Coppola was impressed and figured he may have found his team. After all, Motorcycle Diaries is about a couple of guys running around South America on a ’39 Norton motorcycle. On The Road is about a couple of guys running around North America in a ’49 Hudson. Hmmm…..
The cast all came together. Big name actors like Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst, Steve Buscemi, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Alice Braga, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Sturridge and Danny Morgan. And Francis Coppola got his way with relative unknowns portraying Jack & Neal — Sam Riley (Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in Control) is Kerouac and Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy and Country Strong) is Cassady.
The film was shot between August and December of 2010 in Montreal, New Orleans, Mexico, San Francisco and many other locations. But Walter Salles was searching for even more authenticity, so unbeknownst to just about everyone he and Garrett Hedlund took to the road for a second time in April of 2011. They spent two weeks along with a crew of five and blasted 4,000 miles across the back roads of the USA. They purposefully avoided the interstate highways not built until the 1950s, retracing as best they could the original route of the two lane roads Jack & Neal drove.
The purpose of this unpublicized trip was for Walter and Garrett to be involved in the “Second Unit” shooting themselves. True to their desire to make On The Road as authentic as they could they wanted to capture the images of the ’49 Hudson roaring across the continent with the sights and sounds of the country in the background. The story of On The Road is also the story of America and the film makers wanted to capture the physical and human geography at the core of On The Road as part of the film.
Along the way they had quite the adventure, meeting many fans of the book who wanted to have their photos taken with Garrett and with the ’49 Hudson. The Hudson “travelled courageously” throughout this journey, according to Walter Salles and Garrett Hedlund who described it as “an unforgettable 4,000 mile adventure.”
And then there was the law. Apparently screaming down the highways of America in a ’49 Hudson with a film crew as your back door does tend to attract a little attention. The word is Garrett and the Hudson were pulled over on more than one occasion and invariably the first question from the police after “Do you know how fast you were going?” was “What year is this car?”
No tickets were reported. Even at excess of 100 mph.
Neal Cassady would have been proud.
Great article! Thanks to Laura from Garrett Minds!
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Jack Kerouac’s Muse Neal Cassady Inspired Iconic Beat Generation Novel ‘On the Road’; Son Looks Back
‘Over ambient chatter of a rowdy East Village watering hole his father would have reveled in, the son of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady is sharing a quirky family secret.”My father named me after his friend Jack Kerouac and his friend Allen Ginsberg,” he says, rubbing his Hemingway-like white beard and speaking enthusiastically about his old man between puffs of a cigarette and sips of a strong cocktail.”But on my birth certificate, it says John Allen Cassady,” the 59-year-old California musician notes. “I asked my mom, and she said, ‘I asked your father soon after you arrived the same question. And he goes, “Well, if you say it fast, it sounds like Jack Assady, and nobody’s gonna call my son a jackass all his life.’”
More than 54 years after Kerouac immortalized his cross-country odysseys with Neal Cassady in the novel “On the Road,” Tinseltown is embracing the bohemian ambassadors of post-World War II euphoria with a bear hug.James Franco’s portrayal of Ginsberg in the 2010 movie “Howl” tipped off a spate of big-screen projects exploring the literary clique that rejected the stuffy conformity of the ’50s and laid the groundwork for the rebellious ’60s.Although “On the Road” was a literary sensation that inspired a legion of free spirits to stir up “a dust cloud over the American Night,” an adaptation of Kerouac’s masterpiece is hitting cineplexes for the first time.
Produced by Francis Ford Coppola, who has owned the film rights for 30 years, the $25 million movie, set for a December release, will star Garrett Hedlund of “Tron: Legacy” fame as Neal Cassady’s doppelganger Dean Moriarty. British actor Sam Riley won the role of Kerouac’s alias, Sal Paradise.Skippering a cast, which includes Hollywood A-listers Amy Adams, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Stewart and Viggo Mortensen, is Brazilian Walter Salles — director of the Che Guevara biopic, “Motorcycle Diaries.”"Love Always, Carolyn,” a documentary about the love triangle Neal Cassady pushed his wife into having with Kerouac, was a big hit at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. But the subject of the film ripped it as “a betrayal of trust.”"Ah well, story of my life,” 88-year-old Carolyn Cassady told the Daily News in an email.
The celluloid version of Kerouac’s 1962 autobiographical novel “Big Sur” is on schedule for a 2012 premiere. The flick will feature French actor Jean-Marc Barr as Kerouac and “Glory Road” star Josh Lucas as Cassady. Another documentary covering Neal Cassady’s “Magic Trip” with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters comes out Aug. 5.
Front and center of this new mad swirl is Kerouac’s famous muse, Neal Cassady.In “On the Road,” Kerouac portrays his wild and crazy “long-lost brother” as a “holy con man” in a real Western business suit. But John Cassady insists that his dad was just as much a family man.”I’ve got stories no one else would ever know because I actually grew up with the guy,” says John Cassady, who was 16 when his father died in 1968 after a night of heavy drinking and drugging in Mexico.”To this day, I get old farts going, ‘Oh no, he was with us in Berkeley that weekend.’ ‘No, he was with us in L.A. that weekend,’” Cassady says. “I hate to disappoint you guys, but he was with me at home running foot races on the back lawn or teaching me chess or something.”In other words, he was everywhere at once,” he says. “I’m convinced he had four or five clones, because everybody’s got a story.
“Actor John Ventimiglia of Brooklyn — who played chef Artie Bucco on “The Sopranos” — agrees, saying: “Neal was a cross between an outlaw, a movie star and a cowboy.”He’s one of those epic figures that are there to inspire other people in a way,” says Ventimiglia, who in 2007 narrated an audio book of the original 120-foot-long scroll Kerouac used to type “On the Road” in an apartment on W. 20th St. in Chelsea.
Mesmerized by Kerouac’s cool-intellectual style since the fifth grade, Ventimiglia says he hopes the “On the Road” movie doesn’t sacrifice the words for on-screen action.”He’s such a beautiful writer. He could find beauty in anybody,” says Ventimiglia, who has channeled Kerouac in readings in New York and throughout Europe.David Amram, 80, who in 1959 appeared in and composed the music for the original Beat movie, “Pull My Daisy,” still hosts a mix of jazz and Beat prose the first Monday of every month at Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village, frequently featuring Kerouac readings by Ventimiglia. He predicts the spike in popularity of his iconic peers will spawn new throngs of free spirits and prompt another press run of “On the Road.”"And if they read it, they won’t be disappointed,” Amram says.’
Source - and thanks again to Laura from Garrett Minds for this! 
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