Why did Bob Dylan left the idea of ​​the comic play HBO immediately after it was green

Mentioned by a rush to what could be a short -term Bob Dylan series, Larry Charles explained how he met the rock in a room full of smoke at the back of the Dylan boxing hall. After his assistant offered them coffee and Charles chose an iced drink, Dylan said he wanted a “hot drink”, with Charles’s clarification, “so they bring hot coffee to him, such as cappuccino, and they bring ice coffee to me, gather them in the middle of the table, and they immediately get ice coffee and start drinking ice coffee.” When Dylan asked why the writer was not drinking his drink, he answered “You are drinking my drink”, which clearly laughed between the two and “breaking the ice.”

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This seems convinced Dylan that Charles (Who spoke to /movie in 2023 about his project “Dicks: The Musical”The man who was sponsoring his comedy series, and the couple worked together to produce “a very sterile treatment for this armed comedy that was full of surrealism and all kinds of things from his songs.” This was partially based on a variety of paper scraps with phrases written on it, which Dylan created for several years. “We used to take scraps from paper, put them together, tried to make them logical, and tried to find the story points inside it,” Charles recalls.

The resulting treatment obtained the two meeting with HBO, which Charles recalled his presence in Pajama (he claims that he may have “suffering from nervous breakdown”), while Dylan arrived at the “Black Cow’s Cow Cat, and a black struggle along the earth, (and) black”. As if that was not a bad start, HBO President Chris Albricht began at the time by showing Dylan his tickets to the original Woodstock, which Dylan’s reaction was by saying, “I did not play Woodstock.” According to Charles, the musician began searching for the office window throughout the meeting period.

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Surprisingly, Albrecht agreed to buy their offer only for Dylan to undermine everything almost immediately. “We go to the elevator,” said Charles, the director of Bob, Jeff, the director of Gavin, I and I and the three of us feel joy. We have already sold the project and Bob says: “I don’t want to do it anymore. It is very big. “This was the end. Although the couple will continue to make” masked and unknown “, the comedy series inspired by Jerry Lewis has never existed, and now it is as part of ascending from Dylan Abkarifa.