Luca Guadagnino, the director behind the forthcoming remake of cult classic horror film, Suspiria, is reportedly going to helm a film adaption of Bob Dylan‘s 1975 album, Blood on the Tracks.
In an interview with The New Yorker, the celebrated director revealed he was interested in making the film, as long as Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, The Bridges of Madison County) wrote it.
Bob Dylan’s classic 1975 album Blood on the Tracks is reportedly going to be adapted into a film by Suspiria director, Luca Guadagnino.
Here’s a snippet from the interview:
The usual stream of Guadagnino’s friends came around, including the screenwriter Richard LaGravenese. Guadagnino calls LaGravenese “this guy that I totally and completely love!,” and LaGravenese calls Guadagnino “the first director who has allowed me to write fully emotional moments.” A producer of “Call Me by Your Name” had acquired the theatrical rights to “Blood on the Tracks,” the album by Bob Dylan, and had asked Guadagnino to make it into a movie. Sure, Guadagnino had said, but only if LaGravenese, whom he had never met, wrote it. (LaGravenese had previously written “The Fisher King,” “The Bridges of Madison County,” and, most exciting to Guadagnino, Demme’s adaptation of “Beloved.”) Somehow, the moon shot landed. LaGravenese cleared his schedule and, between April and July, hunkered down to produce a hundred-and-eighty-eight-page screenplay following characters through a multiyear story, set in the seventies, that he 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,” LaGravenese says. “And we dramatize what happens when you let your passions take over too much.”
Nothing else was revealed, so we’ll have to speculate about the details. It’s a surprising prospect nonetheless.
Meanwhile, a Blood on the Tracks box set will soon be released, one that includes “every surviving take” from the album. It’s part of the Dylan Bootleg Series and it’s coming out November 2nd.
Luca Guadagnino’s latest film Suspiria, which features a soundtrack written by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, is out Thursday, November 8th in Australia.
[via SPIN/Brooklyn Vegan]
