Twilight Star Kristen Stewart Will be ON THE ROAD This August

Kristen Stewart will be be busy this August as she begins to play the role of Dean’s wife, Marylou in the movie adaptation of “On The Road“, a 1957 Jack Kerouac novel that focuses on a disaffected drifter named Dean Moriarty, who will be played by Garrett Hedlund. Stewart will join Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst and British actor Sam Riley in the cast of “On The Road” which will be directed by Walter Salles with Francis Ford Coppola producing.

Stewart’s summer is already jam packed as she join’s her Twilight cast mates on a global promotion tour for the upcoming release of the third film in the franchise “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse”, which hits theaters on June 30th. Filming for “On The Road” will begin in Montreal on August 2 before moving to New Orleans and Mexico before returning to Montreal to wrap up. “On The Road” is expected to finish shooting well before Stewart needs to be on the set of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” which begins filming this fall.