Thank you to MelanieJo for emailing me the scan

A small feature of Country Strong was in People Country Magazine September 2010 issue. A new still of Garrett as Beau Hutton. I think this picture was taken on ‘The Stage’.

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The cast was chosen by Salles during the project development. The novel is a favorite of the director, who traveled throughout the United States, following in the footsteps of Kerouac to address adaptation, filming the documentary “In Search of On the Road” as part of their work process.

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The start of filming the movie adaptation of the legendary romance Jack Kerouac, “On the Road,” was scheduled for early August
2010, with Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart confirmed in the leading roles. “On The Road” will be filmed on roads in the U.S. and Canada, as well as the cities of San Francisco and New Orleans, and also in Mexico. The assembly will take place in Brazil.

Sam Riley, who won international recognition for his work on “Control” by Anton Corbijn, and it will be next to John and Helen Miren Hurt in novel adaptation of “Brighton Rock” by Graham Greene, interprets the alter ego of Jack Kerouac’s Sal Paradise.

Garrett Hedlund was assigned to the second lead role as Dean Moriarty. Hedlund will work alongside Jeff Bridges in fiction film scientific “Tron – Legacy” and is also the protagonist of “Love Don’ Let Me Down”.
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Garrett is featured on the cover of Empire Magazine UK August 2010 issue – you’d have to choose which one to get since there’s two different covers. I got both and i think you should too! Go check out your local Borders!

And HQ screencaps of the #2 Tron Legacy Trailer.

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Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con.

Garrett Hedlund: “It’s just such a privilege. When I first had my very first meeting with Joseph Kosinski, the director, and Sean Bailey, the producer, they showed me the video effects footage and to me it’s really nerve-wracking to ever take any meeting on a sort of blockbuster kind of vehicle, something that’s so vast. It was never kind of anything that I was comfortable in doing. I was always comfortable in being a supporting role with great people that I could learn from. Then this, having to be there every day all day was my very first experience. But being there every day with Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde and Joseph Kosinski it was like we became such a wonderful sort of little family. It’s the greatest experience I’ve ever had filming, you know? And also within this world… Now that we get to look back and see it – at that point it was just a bunch of blue screen and bright lights – and now seeing what they’re accumulating into it, my god I’m so proud to be a part of it.”

What was that set like? What was it like every day on the set for you?

Garrett Hedlund: “See, like this set, it wasn’t all just blue screen all the time. We had sets like this to be able to work off of. In this particular set, me and Olivia actually have one big sort of battle on this. The set is about a third of the size that it actually was, but if you look at it you see the dimensions of it and you see where the director Joseph Kosinski’s mind is in the world of architecture. And you get to see how unique and how this sort of really never been done before in terms of visually, in terms of the specifics. He’s very specific and he’s very precise in his mind in terms of… He’s an incredible director and for the world to see the work that he’s put into this, and also from Eric Barba and the whole team down at Digital Domain who did the work on Benjamin Button and others, it’s just an incredible feat and accomplishment. I’m just so excited to see it myself, you know, because I haven’t seen much of it. But any little bit of it that I do see gives me the goosebumps.”

Talk about playing Jeff Bridges’ son. That’s pretty major.

Garrett Hedlund: “Yeah. Well it is because I’d always looked up to Jeff so much, you know, as an actor. I’d always looked at his films for inspiration and as an example of how to be if I were to get roles. Just his uniqueness and how there are no rules, and how you can go from here to there and all the colors of the rainbow that he deals with between scenes. Especially now and being across from him and dealing with these scenes together, it’s such a growing process for me. It seems almost unfair because I feel so lucky to be a part of it and to be able to have this experience with Jeff and Joseph Kosinski who’s probably going to be the next greatest director.”

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Pictures and article courtesy to - Jerry Cimino.

I first met Garrett when he came to the Beat Museum about two or three years ago. He was the first one to be cast and frankly I didn’t talk about it for the longest time because he told me it was under wraps, but he wanted our help in choosing every book and every movie that had a scrap of Neal info in it. He and I spent probably an hour walking around The Beat Museum talking about Neal Cassady the man and Neal the archetype Kerouac created. I found Garrett to be an extremely thoughtful and sensitive guy, very mature and very much in tune with Neal’s place in history. “I may not know a lot about films,” I said, “but I’ve got to believe this is a career-making role.” “I’m aware of that,” Garrett said, “and I’m determined to do it right,”

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Thanks Ju for the scans!!

Brazil newspapers ran an article on On The Road and featured Garrett as Dean.

“Walter Salles goes back to road movies”

The filmaker shows parts of On The Road, an upcoming documentary

The documentary it’s a journey through cinema’s history

The fictional feature film, which is in preproduction, will have the actor Garrett Hedlund in the cast

The movie it’s the starting point to the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s book; Coppola owns the rights since 1979

Article by Ana Paula Sousa (Folha de São Paulo)

The filmmaker Walter Salles took the launch of ‘Na Estrada – O Cinema de Walter Salles’ written by journalist Marcos Strecker, to bring to light parts of the documentary “On The Road”, ‘ sort of a test’ for a project with a bit of epicness.

“The only way of doing this film, was doing it before a documentary in search of this film.” Says the director in an exposition, which happened Wednesday, in São Paulo. “I wanted to reach every director who had contact with this film” he says. And it wasn’t just a few names and ideas.

The rights about the Jack Kerouac’s epic book are owned since 1979 by Francis Ford Coppola. Dennis Hopper, Gus Van Sant, and even Jean-Luc Godard were involved. And they ran away. “There was a time we even though about making this movie in Russia” says Coppola, giving the dimension of the delirium that were around the adaptation. To make it possible, Salles thought that is was needed to understand the sense of the road movie before.

He goes back to his own movie fanaticism to explain the gender. “I started watching movies in Paris, as a kid. I didn’t like the town and the cinema was my escape possibility” he says “The cinema opened doors for me. And that take us to the origin of the road movie”
The road movie, according to Salles, gets born with directors that in times of silent films “mapped the physical and human geography” until then, unknown.

Paste the camera into the characters that are moving in a space, still is, a manner to discover the identity of a country and a society. The westerns did this. “Sem Destino” (1969) with Dennis Hopper also did this. And that is what On The Road will try to find. The parts of Walter Salles’ documentary On The Road, are in first place, and adventure through cinema’s history and for it’s possible languages.

We know, for example, that it was through a documentary that Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) found the faces and landscapes of the fiction “O Evangelho Segundo Sào Mateus” It was also born the first real captured images for “Dong”, the beautiful movie “Em Busca da Vida”, by Jia Zhang-ke. Having as a starting point a village’s destruction for the construction of a barrage, the Chinese moviemaker made a movie about the identity’s dilution in a contemporary world.

“People know what they are through the place they live. When you’re on the road, in a trip, you sort of live a non-identity life.” Says moviemaker Win Wenders, to Walter Salles camera’s lenses. “On the road, you belong to the world.”

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Magazines & Scans > Folha de São Paulo – May 2010

I went to Borders to check if they had the magazine and they did!! So all Aussie fans, if you want to buy the magazine, it’s $25.95 in Borders Chadstone.

See below for more of the interview and magazine scans! You’re welcome!!

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Magazines & Scans > Wonderland April/May 2010 Issue 22

Garrett Hedlund only got as far as his plan A, which was to drive his Chevy S10 to LA and be cast in his first film before the age of 19. All went according to plan, and by the time he flew off to Malta to shoot for Troy, he had already put plans B and C behind him, along with the life on his parents’ farm in Minnesota. Now at 25, Garrett is onto his second blockbuster film, but this time as the lead character in the film Tron Legacy.

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The final image before the trailer premiere tomorrow!

From Total Film:

Today we present the fourth and final exclusive Tron Legacy image… and this one features a disappearing act.

The first and second images showed Sam Flynn (Garret Hedlund) approach the derclict Flynn’s Arcade, to investigate his father’s disappearance 25 years ago.

Yesterday, the third image showed Sam inside the abandoned amusement den, featuring dust covered arcade games eerily lit up as he walks past.

And today… well we can now see the titular Tron game cabinet, but crucially, no Sam…

Perhaps he’s just bent down out of shot to tie his shoelace…

But maybe, just maybe, Sam Flynn has fulfilled his Legacy and entered the game, to join his father (Jeff Bridges) in the ultimate face-off against Tony Blair (Michael Sheen).

No word yet on whether Sheen’s character will be called Tony Blair, but we do know he’ll be the bad guy in Tron, and he’ll at least look like the former PM.

Trailer to follow next week. We may just pass out from excitement!

Does everyone have their tickets for “Alice”? Even if you don’t plan to see the movie, go for the trailer! It’s going to be worth it!  Who’s excited?!

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With the buzz for Tron: Legacy growing, it appears that Disney is already planning sequels for the film. The report says that if Tron: Legacy does well at the box office, it will be the first of a trilogy of films. Disney is hoping that the films can be successful in the same way that the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been.

On top of that, Disney is also planning an animated TV series, which will breach the gap between the first two films of the trilogy, which will come out in late 2011 or early 2010. Disney is also talking about a new Tron ride for Disneyland.

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Do you want a Tron Trilogy? Let’s see how Tron Legacy turns out this December.

More detailed information about the climactic scene at the Nashville Concert on February 2nd.

The scene filmed will be the moment when superstar Kelly Canter, played by Gwyneth Paltrow, wows them at her big comeback concert. Playing Kelly’s opening acts are Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund (Tron Legacy), who, like Paltrow, will perform original songs written by some of Nashville’s hottest composers.

The actors will sing to pre-recorded playback as part of the filmmaking process. Other acts will perform live.

Tim McGraw, who will welcome the crowd, plays the non-singing role of Kelly’s husband-manager. He hails the concert as “an opportunity country fans won’t want to miss. Gwyneth, Leighton and Garrett are sensational singers, the songs are great and the scene is really exciting.

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Love Don’t Let Me Down, a feature film currently shooting in Nashville, stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Garrett Hedlund, Leighton Meester, and Nashville local Tim McGraw. Aside from a sighting of Garrett Hedlund at Bound’ry (confirmed) and a sighting of Gwyneth Paltrow at a local Mexican restaurant (reported), sightings of the cast around town have been few and far between–likely due to the grueling production schedule.

Multiple on-set sightings reported to the Nashvillienne (and chronicled on Twitter by apparent insiders) included a backstage shoot with Paltrow at Belmont’s Curb Event Center and an outdoor funeral scene involving pretty much all the heavy-hitters except _____ . . . . We won’t share this one because if we tell you who wasn’t there for the scene you’ll know whose character is headed six feet under in the flick. GO TO SEE THE MOVIE. We. Hate. Spoilers.

Shooting at the Stage on Broadway is underway and will go on through Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 per the official Twitter and Facebook page of the nightspot.

I hope Garrett’s character Beau Williams didn’t die…. LOL. *fingers crossed*

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Extras are needed for the Tim McGraw and Gwyneth Paltrow film “Love Don’t Let Me Down” shooting in Nashville. Paltrow plays a struggling country singer managed by McGraw.

A climactic concert scene is being shot Feb. 2 at Municipal Auditorium, located at 417 Fourth Ave. N. Extras must be at least 18. A free shuttle will take extras from Lot R at LP Field to Municipal Auditorium, where doors open at 4 p.m. Extras should be able to stay until 11 p.m.

Producers want 2,000 to 2,500 extras, who will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.

McGraw is unlikely to sing, but he’ll greet the crowd, and The Lost Trailers will play at 4:30 p.m. Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund will perform to pre-recorded tracks.

Our dreams have come true!! LOL. I wonder what Garrett’s singing voice sounds like!! Who cares if it’s pre-corded

Are there any Garrett fans in Nashville??? Are you going to this?? How did your casting call go??

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The Stage is VERY excited to announce that Gwyneth Paltrow & Tim McGraw’s new movie, “Love Don’t Let Me Down” is being filmed at The Stage Sunday, Monday and Tuesday January 24-26th!!! We will reopen with our regular shows Wednesday January 27th

No word if Garrett will be there but keep an eye out! Be a fan of The Stage on Facebook

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The Extras Casting Office of Love Don’t Let Me Down, a major motion picture starring Gwyneth Paltrow andTim McGraw, is looking for extras to appear in the movie, according to a press release.

Students would need to be available on Feb. 2 and/or Feb. 3. Anyone interested needs to submit the following with a photograph to ldlmdextras@gmail.com: name, address, city, state, zip, phone numbers, email address, age, height, weight, occupation, if you have a flexible schedule, if you play any instruments, if so which ones, automobiles available and their model/year/color, shirt, neck, sleeve, blouse, shirt, pant, suit, dress, shoe and hat sizes.
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Filming for “Love Don’t Let Me Down” has begun in Nashville, with blogs spotting stars of LDLMD.

The feature film Love Don’t Let Me Down, directed by Shana Feste, has been in preproduction for weeks and recently held its kickoff party at Bound’ry in Midtown to celebrate the beginning of principal photography as well as the arrival of several main cast members.  No word on whether Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester, or Tim McGraw were in attendance, but Garrett Hedlund was spotted.  Not familiar with this hottie? Well, remember the Mormon hunk of hotness from Georgia Rule–essentially the only element that made that flick watchable ? (I assure you it wasn’t Ms. Lohan).  This kid is gonna be huge.  He’s already been cast as the lead in the upcoming Tron Legacy, the sequal to the sci-fi Tron (1982).  And he’s got a fansite called “The G Spot.” We kid you not.  Just keep your hands to yourself, ladies.

LOL thanks for the mention!!

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