If you were hoping Luca Guadagnino would go straight into that long talked-of Call Me By Your Name sequel now that Suspiria is ready to release, don’t get your hopes up – it turns out that isn’t the only project he’s got on the back-burner. There’s another script in his orbit that’s just as surprising a shift as his decision to remake a Dario Argento classic: he’s planning to make Bob Dylan’s seminal 1975 album Blood On The Tracks into a film.
A New Yorker profile interview with Guadagnino, states that one of the producers on Call Me By Your Name bought the film rights to the album and asked Guadagnino to direct – to which the filmmaker agreed, on the condition that screenwriter Richard LaGravenese write the script. Earlier this year, LaGravanese did exactly that, crafting a 188-page screenplay based around the themes and characters of the record. The writer’s other work includes The Fisher King, Behind The Candelabra, and Beloved.
Blood On The Tracks is one of Dylan’s defining albums, filled with pain and heart-break as he separated from his first wife Sara Dylan – though he’s since claimed that it’s not an autobiographical work. According to The New Yorker, the screenplay takes place over several years in the 1970s and will “dramatise the repression” of its central characters.
It remains to be seen whether Blood On The Tracks will be Guadagnino’s next project, or whether Call Me By Your Name 2 comes first. Who knows – maybe the director has an even more surprising left-turn planned.
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