The film, whose name is A Complete Unknown, will tell a specific part of the life of the musician and lyricist.
Bob Dylan personally contributed to the script for the director’s upcoming biopic James Mangold based on the legendary folk musician.
Speaking to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Mangold discussed the upcoming movie of Bob Dylan, that will be titled A Complete Unknown. When asked if Dylan was involved in the film, Mangold revealed that the musician had “personally scored” on the script and that Dylan and Mangold had spent several days together discussing the film.
A Complete Unknownwill be starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, he will start filming in August, according to Mangold’s comments in April. Mangold also confirmed that Chalamet would do her own singing in the film.
What will the movie about Bob Dylan be about?
while talking to Happy Sad Confused, Mangold he also revealed that the film will not be a “typical biopic” as it will not recount the entirety of Dylan’s life and career thus far. Instead, it will focus on “a very specific time” in the 1960s.
“It’s kind of an ensemble piece about this moment in time, early ’60s New York, and this 17-year-old kid with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes to New York to meet Woody Guthrie who’s at the hospital and is dying of a nervous disease,” Mangold explained.
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“And he sings Woody a song he wrote for him and he becomes friends with Pete Seeger, who is like a son to Woody. And Pete sets it up with concerts at local clubs and there you meet Joan Baez and all these other people who are part of this world, and this drifter who comes from Minnesota with a new name and a new perspective on life, becomes a star, signs with the world’s biggest record company in one year, and three years later, has record sales that rival the Beatles.”
The project was first announced in 2020, before being delayed indefinitely later that year without sharing a release timeline.
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