Kirsten Dunst (recently seen in Land of the Lost, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Spider-Man 2 & 3) will play in film On the Road directed by Walter Salles. She thus joined Garrett Hedlund (who is also working on Tron Legacy at the moment), Kristen Stewart (the very popular actress for The Twilight Saga) and Sam Riley (seen in 2007 in Control).

Jose Rivera signs the scenario of this project of feature film which should be released on the big screen in 2011. The filming must begin in August.

On the Road, novel with autobiographical savor written in 1951 by Jack Kerouac and published in 1957, tells the adventures of a man and his fellow traveller who furrow America.

Garrett Hedlund will camp the main character there. Kristen Stewart will play his wife. Sam Riley will incarnate the travelling companion of the protagonist.

Last week, entertainment news reported that the studio American Zoetrope was in location in Canada in order to turn of the scenes for this feature film there.

The Brazilian director Walter Salles also traversed the traces of Kerouac in the United States. He then collected sufficient material to carry out the documentary In Search of On the Road, currently in production.

Released from the Spider-Man franchise, the 27 years-old actress Kirsten Dunst benefits from new opportunities which are offered to her. She has just been recruited to play the main role in Melancholia, the new film directed by Danish director Lars von Trier (Antichrist, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves).

Penélope Cruz was before in negotiations for this role but she rather preferred to join the distribution for the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth title in the Walt Disney Pictures franchise.

The film Melancholia, the first incursion of Lars von Trier into the science fiction universe, will be filmed from July to September in the south of Sweden.

Kiefer Sutherland (whose voice was heard in Monsters vs. Aliens and who can be seen in the TV series 24), Charlotte Gainsbourg (recently seen in Antichrist), Alexander Skarsgaard, Charlotte Rampling (seen in Babylon A.D.), Udo Kier and Stellan Skarsgaard are also attached to the distribution of the feature film.

Dunst recently worked in Montreal with the English actor Jim Sturgess in the film Upside Down.

Bastard, a short movie which she carried out and co-wrote, will be presented in first at the Tribeca Film Festiva. Her film will be also projected in Cannes.