I came across this article and translated it using the Google translator. I am not certain of it’s accuracy but it does start to give us a general timeline for the film. I was hoping that it would be released late this year in time for awards season but it is still possible so don’t lose hope.

The director Walter Salles has just returned from the United States. Crossed the country from one side to another with the filming of “On the Road, “a film inspired by the book by Jack Kerouac. The filmmaker spoke with Glamurama and added a few stories.

“Six years of preparation, ” said Waltinho, who managed to close co-production with no less than Francis Ford Coppola and the French MK2. “We crossed the USA from start to finish with a team of five people. We also went by Canada and Mexico. “Everything to cause the viewer what he calls a ” sense of displacement and desire for discovery, “which follow the book by Kerouac.

Waltinho, moreover, is not the only star of the production. In the cast are Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Alice Braga, and others. The assembly must be completed in late September, and the movie hits the big screen in 2012.

- Source

For the full list of ten, read the article at the source.

Okay, so it may be a little early to talk about the best films of next year. But based on the number of high-profile auteurs with new works on the horizon, 2011 looks like it will be a banner annum for art cinema. While Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life” is already trailering around the world and Sundance will parade a number of hot new projects from American indie stalwarts (Miguel Arteta, Tom McCarthy) and doc-makers (Eugene Jarecki, Steve James), look abroad to the next Berlin or Cannes and you’re likely to see the most thrilling examples of contemporary cinema. Here are ten films we believe could top the best-of lists 12 months from now (in no particular order):

“On the Road”
Directed by Walter Salles

The Jack Kerouac Beat classic finally gets a modern screen redo from the makers of the “Motorcycle Diaries,” Brazilian director Walter Salles and Puerto Rican writer Jose Rivera. Starring Sam Riley (“Control”) as Sal Paradise and Garrett Hedlund (“Tron: Legacy”) as Dean Moriarty, the film follows the two young men journeying across North America in search of themselves. The film features an impressive cast of supporting players, including Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Viggo Mortensen as Old Bull Lee, considered to be a stand-in for William Burroughs. “There is a strange modernity to the theme,” Salles told CNN. “And maybe ‘On the Road’ is more contemporary today than it ever was.”

During an interview with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, Amy briefly talked about what it was like working with her On the Road co-star Kristen Stewart (a quick clip is viewable after the cut).

“She’s awesome,” Adams said of KStew. “I knew she had chops. I’ve seen her since ‘Panic Room.’ I thought she was fantastic. I feel like she’s grown up onscreen. She was great in ‘Into the Wild.’ The girl’s got some chops.”

Amy also talked about what it was like playing the character of Jane in On the Road.

“The character I played required me to be in such a haze,” she explained. “My experience is very tactile — very damp and very hot. I was so in that character.”

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Another great interview with Amy at the press conference for The Fighter has been released. It was posted on YouTube in three separate parts with the total running time being about 16 minutes. Like the one I posted from David Poland a couple days ago, this is a fantastic interview. She talks about Aviana (we hear how to pronounce the name), On the Road, The Muppets, and of course, The Fighter. Once the holiday weekend is over, I’m hoping to get our media archive up to date and will be adding these three videos plus a whole lot more. For now, you can view them via the YouTube links after the cut.

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I am so excited about this project! Amy’s character is so unlike anything she’s ever played before. It’s going to be amazing, I just know it. Since I have not read the book (it’s still sitting in my to read pile), I don’t know how large of a role Amy will have. Can one of my awesome visitors enlighten us? Anyway, I’ve gathered some more tidbits of information to help tide us over until set photos come in.

Director: Walter Salles
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen.

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac’s experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.

When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as “the most beautifully executed, the clearest and most important utterance” of Kerouac’s generation. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

- wikipedia

Filming is rumored to have already begun in Montreal. They are also scheduled to shoot in Mexico and New Orleans.

Breaking news Amy fans! According to this source, Amy will be joining Viggo Mortensen and Kristen Stewart in On the Road, an adaption of the Jack Kerouac novel. Filming is scheduled to begin this month so we’ll hopefully get to see some on the set pics soon.

She will play Jane, the emotionally damaged junkie mother of two children and the wife of Old Bull Lee. Mortensen is going to play Lee.

Keep checking back for more information as it becomes available.