And because of that, Papamichael and director James Mangold are moving on to other projects
Chronology
At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a young Bob Dylan shakes up his act on the folk music scene by going electric and rocking out as the voice of a generation — defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th-century music. According to an October 2020 Collider interview with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, the Bob Dylan film project was put on the back burner due to the recently announced COVID precautions studios are taking. “I don’t think it’s dead,” Papamichael said of the Chalamet-led biopic, “but it’s hard to do in the COVID era because it’s all in small clubs with a lot of extras in period costume, so you have a lot of hair and makeup.
So our next project is Indiana Jones 5 (2022), actually
Mangold is doing that.” I really hope this is full of rambling images, as a Bob Dylan fan and Tim fan in some capacity, I want a solid storyline about his rise to fame, much like Walk the Line. I do NOT want a montage of Timmy riding his bike through open roads and fields to consume an hour of this movie. Bob is a true genius in my opinion and has been fearless in his career and his poetry.
I want Bob!!
If it is going to be a platform to glamorize Timmy or a love story, it will just be another forgotten movie that most serious viewers will tune out after 20-30 minutes. This is not a glamorous piece to go out on vacation to steal a few bucks. As you can tell, I am looking forward to watching it, but skeptical about these days of movies about subjects and people we all love.
I would love to see what Bob himself has to say about it
I saw him play two years ago in Charleston SC and he was amazing and continues to do it his way. The new material and songs he played that were popular, he did them freestyle and very different from the original release. Uncompromising is the word and for this film to use Dylan as a gateway to make money would be compromising Dylan’s legacy, in my opinion.