I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan

Paramount has struck a deal with producers to develop a biographical feature film about the famed singer-songwriter with Dylan's cooperation, a Paramount spokeswoman said on Tuesday. Dylan, who played a washed-up folk singer sprung from jail in the recent film Masked and Anonymous will not portray himself in Paramount's
"biopic" but has licensed rights to his music for the production, the
spokeswoman said. The project is the brainchild of Oregon-based filmmaker Todd Haynes, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director behind 2002's romantic period
drama Far From Heaven starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid, she said.
The film will be developed by New York production company Killer Films and Hollywood-based John Wells Productions Haynes and the head of Killer Films, Christine Vachon, are old friends from college, a spokeswoman for the company said. The project, tentatively titled I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan is in the earliest stages of development, though Haynes has been tinkering with the idea since before making Far From Heaven
"They've got the director. Now they have to finish the script and start casting," Paramount's spokeswoman said, adding that no time table has been set for production or release of the film. Vachon told Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety that Haynes hopes to finish the script in a few months, though details of the project remain sketchy. "The film is going to be inspired by Dylan's music and his ability to re-create and re-imagine himself time and time again," Vachon was quoted as saying. Haynes, himself, has said in previous interviews that he envisions the film as a "multiple refracted biopic" with Dylan played by at least seven different actors, including a woman.