Garrett Hedlund Goes On the Road

Remember when Brad Pitt was supposed to play Dean Moriarty in a never-happening adaptation of Jack Kerouac's seminal classic? What a difference reality makes! Production Weekly reports that Garrett Hedlund -- he of Friday Night Lights and the upcoming Tron: Legacy -- has been cast as Dean Moriarty in Walter Salles' big screen version of On the Road. Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together... [Production Weekly via Twitter]