Trailer for James Mangold's Bob Dylan Biopic A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Starring Timothée Chalamet
Searchlight Pictures has released the first trailer for the Bob Dylan biopic film A Complete Unknown, which comes from director James Mangold (Logan, Ford v Ferrari).
The film stars Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, and as you’ll see in the trailer, he delivers a spot on impression of the legendary musician. Chalamet also performs the music in the film, and it’ll be interesting to see what people think of that.
The movie is set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, and the story follows the 19-year-old Minnesota musician's meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Dylan “shakes up the music world in 1965, as he pivots to performing with an electric guitar for the first time.” He “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.”
The film also stars Edward Norton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy.
Mangold previously talked about the film, saying: "It's such an amazing time in American culture and the story of a young, 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with like two dollars in his pocket.”
He added that the musician was "embraced into the family of folk music in New York and then, of course, kind of outrunning them at a certain point as his star rises so beyond belief."
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.
The movie will hit theaters in December. Watch the trailer and let us know what you think.