Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet is starring in the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, titled A Complete Unknown.
After months of waiting, we finally have a full trailer of his s transformation into Dylan.
James Mangold directed Chalamet in the film, which will debut this Christmas.
Dylan’s historic and controversial Newport Folk Festival electric set–his folk songs were celebrated as representation for the downtrodden. (See: “The Times They Are a-Changin’ ”and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”)
When Dylan unleashed his all-electric performance of “Like a Rolling Stone” at the famous event, many music figures saw it as a major betrayal.
Chalamet will take on all of the film’s singing duties, as opposed to those in Elvis and Bohemian Rhapsody, which had the help of voice-blending technology.
Mangold also directed 2005’s Johnny Cash film, Walk the Line, for which Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress Oscar.
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“Timmy is working his a** off right as we speak,” Mangold said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2023. “I couldn’t have more confidence in him and in all the others joining in. Not unlike making an Indiana Jones movie, the expectations are high, but so is the camaraderie and the love among us. We’ve all been essentially working on this movie for the last three years. So there’s been a lot of preparation.
When Covid took us offline, no one stopped. Writing, rehearsing, Timmy playing guitar and working. Probably took it with him through every Dune, and probably was playing guitar as he was riding a worm.”
Note:
Cate Blanchett impersonated one face of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ 2007 I Am Not There in which different actors (Heath Ledger, Richard Gere) played different facades of the legendary singer.
