See Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in First Trailer for ‘A Complete Unknown’
Searchlight Pictures has dropped the first full trailer for A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s upcoming biopic of legendary musician Bob Dylan, starring Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet and set for a December release.
Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation.
Written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, the film is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book “Dylan Goes Electric” and was originally titled Going Electric. A Complete Unknown borrows a phrase from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
In the trailer, we see essentially what the behind the scenes paparazzi shots snapped of Chalamet during the films production earlier this year as he walks the streets of Manhattan, passing Dylan’s favorite spots including Cafe Wha? and Hotel Chelsea and we get Chalamet’s rendition of Dylan’s 1963 protest song “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” all shot in the warm brown light of Phedon Papamichael’s cinematography (Ford v Ferrari, Walk the Line) and again the production design of François Audouy (Ford v Ferrari, Logan). A brief look at a possible love triangle between Dylan and Monica Barbaro’s Joan Baez and Elle Fanning’s Sylvie Russo, a fictionalized version of Dylan’s then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo, who appears on the album cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”
The film also stars Academy Award nominee Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, P. J. Byrne as Harold Leventhal, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, Dan Fogler as Albert Grossman and Will Harrison as Bob Neuwirth.
From Searchlight Pictures, A Complete Unknown is produced by Michael Bederman, Fred Berger, Bob Bookman, Chalamet, Alan Gasmer, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Mangold, Andrew Rona and Jeff Rosen.
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