LONDON — 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 budgeted production, backers said Thursday.

Salles’ producing partner Rebecca Yeldham is teaming up with French production banner MK2 who snapped up the rights and will produce the film in collaboration with Film 4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil.

Salles traveled across the U.S. in Kerouac’s footsteps to prepare the adaptation, filming a documentary on the search for “On The Road” as part of his prep.

Oscar nominated scribe Jose Rivera (“The Motorcycle Diaries”) has penned the adaptation for Salles.

Stewart will play the role of Dean Moriarty’s incandescent on-and-off wife Marylou while Riley will star as author Jack Kerouac’s alter ego Sal Paradise. Hedlund has been cast as Dean Moriarty.

“We are enormously proud to be collaborating on one of the last great cinematographic adventures of the 20th century to be brought to the screen,” stated MK2′s Nathanael Karmitz and Charles Gillibert.

Kerouac’s cult novel of youth and freedom was first published in 1957 and has sold several million copies all over the world.

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On the madness that has become her life: “It’s insane! Once somebody finds out, you have to get the hell out of wherever you are. People freak out. And the photographers, they’re vicious. They’re mean. They’re like thugs. I don’t event want to drive around by myself anymore. It’s fucking dangerous.”

On her loss of privacy: “Somebody knocked on my hotel room door and asked for a light, then said that they were a big fan. I was like, ‘Do you really need me to light your cigarette? How do you know what room I’m in?’ I can’t be by myself and I like being by myself.”

On criticism of her public manner: “I think it’s funny that when I go onstage to accept an award, they think I’m nervous, uncomfortable, and awkward—and I am—but those are bad words for them.”

On her red-carpet demeanor: “People say that I’m miserable all the time. It’s not that I’m miserable, it’s just that somebody’s yelling at me…I literally, sometimes, have to keep myself from crying…It’s a physical reaction to the energy that’s thrown at you.”

On caring: “I hate it when they say I don’t give a shit, because nobody cares more than I do. I’m telling you I don’t know anybody who does this that gives a shit more than I do.”

On Team Edward vs. Team Jacob: “I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them. People say, ‘Just say who you’re dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.’ It’s like, No they won’t! They’ll ask for specifics.”

Looks as if Kristen Stewart is going On the Road. And not just because she is doing publicity for the latest Twilight film, Eclipse, opening June 30.

As she told USA TODAY’s Susan Wloszczyna today while in Chicago for an Oprah taping, “I am very much attached to a movie that has been trying to get made forever. Not that this is going to help it, but maybe I can just brag a little bit. I am super excited about it, too. I am about to play Marylou in On the Road. So that’s a big deal.”

Filmmakers including Francis Ford Coppola and Gus Van Sant have struggled for years to bring Jack Kerouac’s classic 1957 tale of disaffected members of the Beat Generation to the big screen. Tron: Legacy’s Garrett Hedland will play the confused drifter Dean Moriarity with Stewart as his young wife and British actor Sam Riley (Control) as his traveling pal, Sal. Brazilian director Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) will direct. Filming is expected to start this summer.

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