Bob Dylan, Chloë Bailey and Timothée Chalamet.
HOW MANY FILMS must Hollywood make about Bob Dylan before they can call it a day? The answer is: quite a few. In the pipeline we have James Mangold’s Timothée Chalamet-led biopic Going Electric, which is currently in development while the director and star complete other projects. And a recently announced adaptation of stage musical Girl From The North Country, inspired by Dylan’s back catalogue, has now entered the mix. Featuring big-hitter songs such as ‘Jokerman’ and ‘Forever Young’, the film will star musician Chlöe Bailey (sister of The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey), Woody Harrelson, and Olivia Colman, and follows a group of travellers during the Great Depression. Dylan may not be the most mainstream of musicians, but Hollywood keeps coming back to him, whether he’s being played by an erratic Cate Blanchett in 2007’s I’m Not There or documented by Martin Scorsese in 2019’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.