Elle Fanning Joins Director James Mangold's Bob Dylan Biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
Elle Fanning (Super 8, The Neon Demon, The Great) will star alongside Timothée Chalamet (Dune) and Monica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick) in director James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.
The movie centers on a young Bob Dylan (Chalamet), who “shakes up the music world in 1965, as he pivots to performing with an electric guitar for the first time.” Dylan “embraced rock n roll and traded his acoustic guitar for an amp and an electric guitar,” which “created a huge outcry.” But “it cemented the status of rock music.”
Fanning will take on the role of Dylan’s early ’60s love interest, university student and artist Sylvie Russo. The script for the film was written by Jay Cocks (Gangs of New York) with Mangold doing revisions on it. Dylan’s longtime manager Jeff Rosen is a producer on the film.
Fanning is a talented young actress and it’s great to see her land another big movie role like this. I have no doubt that Mangold is going to deliver a solid film. The guy has a lot of big projects cooking right now with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Swamp Thing for DC Studios, and a Star Wars movie for Lucasfilm.
The film headed into production in New York this summer.