Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan’s cult album from 1975, could soon be adapted into a movie. Academy Award-nominated director Luca Guadagnino, known for movies Call Me by Your Name and Suspiria, recently told New Yorker that he is working on a movie adaptation of this classic.
According to Guadagnino, he acquired the theatrical rights to Blood on the Tracks and asked Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King, The Bridges of Madison County) to write the script. LaGravenese said yes, and produced 188-pages worth screenplay which “follows characters through a multiyear story, set in the seventies, that he and Guadagnino had invented, drawing on the album’s central themes.”
While further details of the movie are currently being held under wraps, LaGravenese did reveal a few bits about its characters.
“When they’re repressing, we dramatize the repression, and what that does to them,” says LaGravenese. “And we dramatize what happens when you let your passions take over too much.”
Blood on the Tracks was Bob Dylan’s 15th studio album and was recorded during a turbulent period in Dylan’s personal life, which included estrangement from his then-wife Sara. Because of this, most critics interpreted the songs from the record as autobiographical, although Dylan denied this several times and claimed that he got the inspiration from short stories of Anton Chekhov.
While the album initially received mixed reviews from the critics, it went on to be considered one of Bob Dylan’s finest works and being labeled as “the truest, most honest account of a love affair from tip to stern ever put down on magnetic tape.”
