How would Jack Karouac feel about Kristen Stewart in 'On the Road'

Kristen Stewart filmed On the Road last summer, a film based on the famed novel by
Jack Karouac, now deceased. So how would the author feel about Kristen playing
Marylou in the film version? Karouac ’ s biographer Dennis McNally says that Stewart is pretty much spot on. While some have questioned the casting choices, others think director Walter
Salles was spot-on in picking Stewart, Hedlund and Riley to play Kerouac ’ s iconic characters. “ Well, the irony of it all is that Marylou [Stewart's character] was about 17 in ‘ On the Road,’ and Kristen Stewart kind of looks like what I imagine she looked like, ” says Dennis McNally, Grateful Dead historian and author of ‘ Desolation Angel ,’ the definitive Kerouac biography. “ I met Salles, the filmmaker. He was doing a lot of advance research. And while ‘ On the Road’ as a film project always seemed jinxed to me — ['Godfather' director Francis Ford] Coppola’ s been trying to make it since the 1970s — I wish him well. ”