Why James Mangold didn't let Walk Hard stop him from making musical biopics: 'I don't want to be satire'd out of telling stories' By clicking “Accept All Cookies”, you agree to the storing of ...

In 2007, “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” hit theaters and ruined the musical biopic forever. No one was safe. “Ray,” “La Bamba,” you name it; whatever the movie, “Walk Hard ...

Mangold did acknowledge that the genre became slightly less popular in the wake of Walk Hard, but he didn’t think that was because of the movie. Please enable ...

The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox, whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 36 kids, stars in his ...

Jenna Fischer and John C. Reilly in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) (Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) With a $28 million budget, Walk the Line grossed more than $186 million.

So enter “A Complete Unknown,” a biopic about Bob Dylan directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet. Mangold was ...

has not been scared off from paying cinematic tribute to other legendary musicians after the parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007). More from Deadline James Mangold On Discovering The Young Bob ...