‘On the Road’ Movie to Be Released in France in May

Thanks to the Beat Museum in San Francisco and its website www.kerouac.com, here’s news about a film release date for the movie version of Jack Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.” The cast includes Amy Adams, who starred in “The Fighter” and Viggo Mortensen of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Here’s the notice from the Beat Museum in quotes:

1).  MARK MAY 23, 2012 ON YOUR CALENDAR
The internet websites are abuzz with
the news that came via a tweet yesterday from the French Film Production Company
MK2.  They announced the French Release of OTR the movie will be May 23rd.  Now,
we have no inside info but we can read a calendar as well as anyone and the
Cannes Film Festival is May 16 – May 27.  Hmmm.  And Walter Salles has a long
history at Cannes with a number of his films as well as an OTR trailer at the
2011 festival.  Double hmmmm.  And MK2 is a French company.  Triple
hmmmmm.

Here’s a link to more info.