Report: Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard’s “Brownsville Girl” Adapted Into Film

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According to an exclusive report by Pajiba, we can add one more potentially epic project to the countless films, poems, music, and art inspired by Bob Dylan’s oeuvre: Screenwriter Jay Cocks (The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York) was handpicked by Dylan himself to pen the script for a film project based on 1986 Knocked Out Loaded cut “Brownsville Girl,” which Dylan composed with help from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright/actor Sam Shepard.

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Could I BE more excited? Brownsville Girl is an intriguing, haunting song which I have loved for many years. If the project goes ahead, I hope they do it justice, but I have a feeling they will.

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