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‘Walk the Line’ Director James Mangold Thought ‘Walk Hard’ Was “Hilarious”


Nearly 20 years after making 'Walk the Line', James Mangold says the 2007 parody 'Walk Hard' didn't scare him off from the musical biopic genre.

Jenna Fischer and John C. Reilly in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story(2007) (Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) The film follows an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota who arrives in NYC in 1961 with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide.

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