Scoot McNairy plays Woody Guthrie, and Dan Fogler plays Albert Grossman. Director James Mangold cowrote the screenplay with Jay Cocks. Both scribes have been twice nominated for Oscars.
“You could structure a screenplay along the lines of what Peter Shaffer did with “Amadeus,’” Mangold told the Book Review ...
James Mangold may choose between directing a new Star Wars movie or a DCU film soon. Mangold's Star Wars movie explores the origins of the Force 25,000 years before the prequel trilogy.