2024-07-26 02:51:18
Searchlight Pictures released the first trailer for the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown on Wednesday. Today, the eighty-three-year-old winner of the Grammy, Oscar, Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize is played by Timothée Chalamet, known from the romance Give Me Your Name or the science fiction Dune.
The film A Complete Unknown will be released in cinemas at the turn of 2024 and 2025. | Video: Searchlight Pictures
According to Variety.com, the new album focuses on Dylan’s early days in New York in the 1960s, before the acoustic protest songstress famously put on an electric guitar and switched to loud rock’n’roll at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
In the trailer, Dylan walks through the streets of Manhattan and passes the Cafe Wha? music club, where he started, or the Chelsea Hotel, where at one time several artists lived, including Patti Smith or Leonard Cohen. Timothée Chalamet, who previously sang in the recent Wonka musical, sings A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall, a song released on the 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, in a Dylan-like voice throughout.
Monica Barbaro as singer-songwriter Joan Baez and Elle Fanning, whose fictional character Sylvie Russo apparently refers to Dylan’s real-life girlfriend at the time, Suze Rotolo, also flash in front of the camera. She posed with him on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album.
Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie also perform.
The new film was directed by James Mangold, the writer of the 2005 Oscar-winning film about Johnny Cash called Walk the Line. “A Complete Unknown takes place during a time that was amazing for American culture, and tells the story of how 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York with about “with two dollars in his pocket and within three years he becomes a worldwide sensation. First, the folk community in New York gathers around him, after which he changes direction as his star rises incredibly,” Mangold described the film according to The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
In recent years, James Mangold filmed the action adventure Indiana Jones and the Fates or the racing Le Mans ’66. Bob Dylan collaborated on the film about his life, repeatedly meeting with Mangold and annotating the script, the director said last year.
Czech audiences will soon see Bob Dylan again, from October 4 to 6, he will play three concerts in Prague’s O2 universum hall. They will perform here as part of the Rough & Rowdy Ways tour, the name of which refers to the last studio album from 2020. Tickets for prices starting at 2,690 crowns are already on sale.