Weeks before shooting began for the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s classic “On the Road,” in which Kristen Stewart stars, the actress admitted to having some “jitters.”

The “Twilight” babe admitted to being “really nervous, like, honestly and genuinely really nervous about it.”

Yet, at one point during the months of filming, Kristen was able to put the nervousness aside. “It was everything I wanted it to be,” she said. “It exceeded every expectation. It was so much fun. It was wild. We didn’t really know what to expect every day.”

The flick, which also stars Sam Riley, Garret Hedlund, Kirsten Dunst and Amy Adams, is due out sometime in 2011.

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Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are walking the line for Walter Salles’ long-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.”

Shooting is set to begin in August on the $25 million production, backers said Thursday.

Salles producer partner Rebecca Yeldham is teaming with French production banner MK2, which snapped up the rights and will produce the pic in collaboration with Film4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil.

Salles traveled across the U.S. in Kerouac’s footsteps to work out the adaptation, filming a documentary on the search for “On the Road” as part of his preparation. Read more…

After numerous false starts, Walter Salles and Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 cult novel, “On the Road,” is finally on the path to production.

French mini-major MK2 will exec produce the $25 million pic, which has long been a passion project of Brazilian helmer Salles and Coppola, who acquired the rights three decades ago.

Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund (“Tron: Legacy”) will topline, with shooting due to start in August.

Riley will play Kerouac’s alter ego, Salvatore Paradise, Hedlund is Dean Moriarty while Stewart will play his on-and-off wife, Marylou. Read more…