Nearly 20 years after making 'Walk the Line', James Mangold says the 2007 parody 'Walk Hard' didn't scare him off from the musical biopic genre.

Though "Walk Hard" heavily spoofed Mangold's "Walk the Line," the director never saw the satire as a death knell for the musical biopic.

James Mangold, the director and co-writer of the acclaimed 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, recently shared his thoughts on the 2007 parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. The satirical film, starring John C.

"[It was strange] in an intellectual way," Mangold tells Entertainment Weekly of revisiting Johnny Cash. "But not at all in a real way. I found myself watching Boyd sing a song th