Guadagnino to make Dylan film

(ANSA) - Rome, October 16 - Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino is thinking of making a film inspired by the Bob Dylan album Blood on the Tracks once his much-anticipated remake of the Dario Argento classic Suspiria hits screens shortly, the New Yorker said in a interview-profile of the Sicilian director.
    The film will focus on the break-up of Dylan's marriage to first wife and model Sara Lownds, immortalised in the 1966 Blonde on Blonde song Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands.
    Guadagnino and screenwriter Richard LaGravanese believe that two songs on the 1975 album Blood on the Tracks were inspired by the break-up, and marked an artistic renaissance for the singer-songwriter: Simple Twist of Fate and You're Gonna Make Me so Lonely.
    The director, who won four Oscars with last year's call Me By Your Names and whose previous credits include The Protagonists (1999), I Am Love (2010), and A Bigger Splash (2015), told the New Yorker that the new film will be a "story set in the Seventies, which pans out over a number of years and which I and LaGravanese invented by picking out central themes of the album".
    Guadagnino reportedly insisted that LaGravanese, whose writing credits include The Fisher King, Bridges of Madison County, Behind the Candelabra and Beloved, be on board.
    The New Yorker said the 188-page script is now ready.