Bob Dylan's Factory ban

14-12-2006 20:00

Bob Dylan wants to stop the release of new film 'Factory Girl' because he believes it falsely implies he is responsible for Edie Sedgwick's suicide.The music legend has written to producers Bob Yari and Holly Wiersma, and screenwriter Aaron Richard Golub, demanding the movie - a biopic about artist Andy Warhol's young muse - is shelved until it has been determined whether or not he is defamed in the film.Sedgwick, played by Sienna Miller, was Warhol's biggest protégé until she became addicted to drugs and killed herself by overdosing on barbiturates in 1971. While living at New York's Chelsea Hotel she befriended Dylan and the pair are rumoured to have had a relationship.Dylan's lawyer, Orin Snyder, has said the original screenplay portrayed the alleged relationship using Dylan's name, and suggested he dumped Sedgwick - causing "her tragic decline into heroin addiction and eventual suicide."The name has now been changed to 'Danny Quinn' in the film and the character, played by Hayden Christensen, is said to be a combination of Dylan, the late Doors frontman Jim Morrison and Sir Mick Jagger.But Snyder insists critics who have previewed the film say it is unmistakably Dylan.