the News has been the subject of countless speculations. Scorsese’s upcoming movie about Dylan’s tour in 1975 and 1976, berries according to the Variety of the modest title of ”the Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese”. Promised to capture the ”problematic of the spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music Dylan performed during the autumn of the year”. In design, it declared the film to be ”partly documentary, partly greater and partly feberdröm, a unique experiment”.
It accommodates a variety of interviews in addition to a freshly made with Bob Dylan. Among the artists who were on stage with him during the sweeping tour through the united states and Canada in 1975 and 1976 – a total of 58 concerts – were, amongst others, Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Mick Ronson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ringo Starr, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper, Bette Midler and Joni Mitchell. The majority of the interviews in the documentary has been made by the nobel prize-winning singer’s manager Jeff Rosen, who in the same way contributed to Scorsese’s Dylanfilm ”No direction home” from 2005.
No premiere date has not yet been announced, but Variety does not exclude that it will appear in the spring. The film is expected to be followed by a cd release with unreleased music of Bob Dylan from the same period.
The itinerant cirkuslika the Rolling Thunder tour, which often offered over the four-hour long concerts, has in modern times been hailed by, among others, Håkan Hellström. In a nod to this, he baptized his summer tour in 2017 to the ”Rolling thunder” and explained that he wanted to invite his audience around the country in both ”sunshine and rolling thunder”.
