Nearly 20 years after making 'Walk the Line', James Mangold says the 2007 parody 'Walk Hard' didn't scare him off from the ...
The fact that Mangold had done the same thing with Witherspoon and Phoenix on "Walk the Line" gave him the license to say it ...
"[It was strange] in an intellectual way," Mangold tells Entertainment Weekly of revisiting Johnny Cash. "But not at all in a ...
James Mangold, director of the acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, reflects on the lasting influence of the 2007 parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Though "Walk Hard" heavily spoofed Mangold's "Walk the Line," the director never saw the satire as a death knell for the musical biopic.
The 2x Oscar nominee, who co-wrote and directed the 2005 Johnny Cash pic Walk the Line, has not been scared off from paying cinematic tribute to other legendary musicians after the parody Walk Hard: ...