Dylan Contributes New Song To "Wonder Boys" Film
Bob Dylan has contributed a new song, titled "Things Have Changed" to the upcoming soundtrack to "Wonder Boys," due out on February 15. The track, a sly nod to his seminal 1963 cut, "The Times They Are A-Changin'," marks Dylan's first new music since 1997's "Time Out Of Mind" LP.
The film's director, Curtis Hanson, also chose three other Dylan tunes for the record, "Buckets of Rain," "Shooting Star," and "Not Dark Yet." The four tracks mark Dylan's biggest contribution to a movie soundtrack since 1973's "Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid," the Sam Peckinpah western for which he composed the score and had a bit role as the cowboy Alias.
Hanson, who directed the 1997 movie "L.A. Confidential" and shared an Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay, has also helmed a video for "Things Have Changed" featuring Dylan and the film's star, Michael Douglas.Ever since first seeing 'Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid,'" Hanson said in a statement, "I've hoped to work withhim on a movie. When he walked into our editing room nearly 30 years later, my expectations were high and I wasn't disappointed.
Dylan last contributed an original or unreleased song to a movie back in 1986, when he provided the title track to "Band Of The Hand," a film produced by Michael Mann, who may be in contention for an Academy Award for directing "The Insider.Since releasing "Time Out Of Mind," which won a Grammy for Album Of The Year in 1997, Dylan has been focusing primarily on the road, including an extended tour last year with Paul Simon. In 1998, Dylan and singer Joan Osborne remade his "Chimes Of Freedom" for the soundtrack to the TV mini-series, "The '60s.The video for "Things Have Changed" is expected to begin airing in February, while the "Wonder Boys" film is due in theaters on February 25.
