Kirsten Dunst has added yet another intriguing project to her growing slate of films. The actress has joined

Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley & Garret Hedlund in Walter Salles' adaptation of the beat generation classic "On The Road."

The project, which has spent years in development and even spawned a Salles' directed documentary about his journey to bring the book to the big screen, "In Search Of On The Road" has had a revolving door of talent at various points including Matthew McConaughey, Russell Crowe, Brendan Fraser, Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd. However, with a cast in place and financing secured, Salles is now ready to bring his vision to the big screen.

As we reported recently, Focus Features are off this project and now French production banner MK2 has the rights and will produce in conjunction with Film 4 in the U.K. and Videofilmes in Brazil. No word if it will shoot in black and white as Salles originally suggested it must. EW says the film will be shot in New Orleans and in Montreal with Variety adding the production will start lensing in August. The film has a script from "The Motorcycle Diaries" scribe Jose Rivera who based it off the recently published, unedited scroll version of the book.

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