The lovely Walter Salles is supposedly directing an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road -- a fitting followup to Salles' road movie about Che Guevara and Alberto Granado, The Motorcycle Diaries (with same screenwriter Jose Rivera adapting).
The film is being produced by Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope, and supposedly Frank bought the rights in 1980 for $95k. I expect nothing but beautiful things, though I'm wondering about the release date (IMDb.com sez 2009).
NPR digs into the book's legendary origins.
CNN interview with Salles last year about the film & an associated doc (oo, DVD extra in advance!).