Jack Kerouac, the prolific writer and Beat Generation pioneer, is at the center of three upcoming movies, including the film version of his famous 1957 novel. On the Road hits screens on Dec 21 ...

For years Francis Ford Coppola has owned the rights to Jack Kerouac’s beat classic, On the Road. Now—after much wrangling to get everything right—the most important novel of a generation is ...

A doc about Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road,' directed by Ebs Burnough & featuring Michael Imperioli premieres at Tribeca. Watch ...

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road became an iconic novel to a restless group of young and disenfranchised when it was published in 1957, and close to half a century passed before it became a movie.

Sex, drugs, jazz, road trips, and rambling prose—this is Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The acclaimed novel, originally written on a continuous roll of paper in a three-week period, has become a ...

In 1957 Jack Kerouac wrote a letter to Marlon Brando (which just sold for over $33,000 at Christies) asking him to buy the rights to On The Road and make a movie out of it, noting that they could ...

Based on the classic novel by Jack Kerouac that inspired generations ... who earlier made another try-to-find-yourself road movie with “The Motorcycle Diaries.” “We did this for 21/2 weeks.

A movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road” was conceived immediately upon the book’s landmark publication in 1957, and lots of people have tried to get it going since.

ONE of the best-known novels ever written doesn't even start the way you think it does. Try this: "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up." ...

"Big Sur," an adaptation of American literary icon Jack Kerouac's novel, focuses on a moment in Kerouac's life when, overwhelmed by the success of his opus "On the Road" and struggling to battle ...

The legend behind the writing of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is well known, if not entirely accurate. Fueled by inspiration, coffee and Benzedrine, Kerouac sat down at his typewriter and -- in one ...