After a few years spent wandering in the career wilderness, actresses Kirsten Dunst and Winona Ryder have emerged, hoping to triumph over spotty roles, substance abuse rumors, and recent blank spots in their filmographies. Ryder has juicy supporting roles in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and Ron Howard's Cheaters on her docket, while Dunst booked a lead in Lars von Trier's Melancholia and today added a new project to her comeback bid.
Variety says the actress will be joining Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart in On the Road, directed by Walter Salles and based on Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel. That'll be the second consecutive director of some acclaim that Dunst will have worked with this year (we're not counting the McG video), and there's still the long-shelved All Good Things yet to come out, where she stars opposite Ryan Gosling for Andrew Jarecki. Dunst hasn't been seen onscreen since 2008's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, but if all three of these projects are released on top of one another, might her star wattage be restored? Lindsay Lohan, there's hope for you yet!
Dunst Joins Stewart On the Road [Variety]