'On the Road' teaser trailer: Kristen Stewart, Jack Kerouac, and jazz, baby, jazz -- VIDEO

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Published on August 31, 2012 11:30PM EDT

Instantly entering the race for the best trailer of the year, the new, dialogue-free teaser for On the Road mixes an expertly edited collage of shots from the long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s seminal Beat Generation novel with a propulsive jazzy score and a key excerpt from the novel itself spoken by Kerouac stand-in Sal Paradise (voiced here by actor Sam Riley). Also: Some excellent fontage. Check it out below:

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