Italian film director Luca Guadagnino has revealed plans to turn Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks into a full-length film.
Ask any Bob Dylan fan and they’ll likely tell you that 1975’s Blood On The Tracks is one of his finest works. Despite a mixed reception at first, it’s since gone on to be considered one of the greatest albums of all time.
With classic tracks such as ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ and ‘Simple Twist of Fate’, it’s an amazing record from start to finish, but now, it seems destined to receive the big-screen treatment.
In a recent interview with The New Yorker, it was revealed that director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria) is working on bringing Bob Dylan’s classic record to theatres.
Written by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, Water For Elephants), the film is set to portray a “multiyear story, set in the seventies, that [LaGravenese] and Guadagnino had invented, drawing on the album’s central themes.”
“When they’re repressing, we dramatize the repression, and what that does to them,” explained Richard LaGravenese about the film’s characters. “And we dramatize what happens when you let your passions take over too much.”
Of course, this won’t be the first time that Bob Dylan has been adapted for the big screen, with numerous documentaries being made on the musician, and movies such as I’m Not There taking a more dramatised approach to Dylan’s life.
Interestingly, the timing of this announcement is rather fitting as well, with the 14th volume in Dylan’s Bootleg Series being released next month. Titled More Blood, More Tracks, the compilation is set to feature just about every single take that Dylan recorded for the album. Needless to say, it’ll be one for the diehard fans.
Check out Bob Dylan’s ‘Tangled Up In Blue’:
