NP but Dylan (Maybe old news to most, new to me)

[Jamie McKittrick]

Great album. Hope the film doesn't have a ropey lead getting
metaephorically tangled up in one "Loretta Blue" or somebody knocking on a
door during a thunderstorm. That would truly suck.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bob-dylan-blood-tracks-movie-308676
>
> Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ Album to Be Made Into a Movie
>
> LONDON -- Brazil-based international production banner RT Features has
> strummed up the rights to adapt Bob Dylan’s seminal 1975 album Blood on the
> Tracks into a movie.
>
> RT Features’ Rodrigo Teixeira and Fernando Loureiro will produce the
> English-language film.
>
> The producing duo are putting the project out to directors aiming to find
> one “with the unique vision to fulfill onscreen what Dylan accomplished in
> the studio with such well-known songs 'Tangled Up in Blue,' 'Simple Twist
> of Fate' and 'Shelter From the Storm.' "
>
> "As longtime admirers of one of the greatest albums in the history of
> music, we feel privileged to be making this film,” said Teixeira. “Our goal
> is to work with a filmmaker who can create a classic drama with characters
> and an environment that capture the feelings that the album inspires in all
> fans."
>
> Blood on the Tracks, Dylan’s 15th studio album, was released by Columbia
> Records in January 1975. Certified double platinum in the U.S. and gold in
> the U.K., the LP topped the Billboard 200 chart for two weeks, and Rolling
> Stone listed the album in its top 20 of all time.
>
> As part of a push into developing and producing English-language films, RT
> Features also is setting up Strip, mounting it with Thunder Road Pictures,
> and The Games of 1940, a co-production with Kennedy/Marshall to be written
> by David Seidler and Luca Manzi.
>
> RT Features has produced Portuguese-language movies including Romeo and
> Juliet Get Married for Vanguard Cinema as well as 2007’s Drained, which was
> selected for official competition at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2011,
> RT's Heleno and The Silver Cliff  secured slots during at the Toronto
> International Film Festival and O Abismo Prateado found its way onto the
> Directors’ Fortnight roster at Cannes.
>
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