Timothée Chalamet Is A Bob Dylan In A Complete Unknown Trailer

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Timothée Chalamet in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Photo by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Timothée Chalamet is certainly not unknown. In James Mangold’s latest he’s Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Searchlight Pictures have released the first UK Trailer.

Mr Chalamet has been many characters the past few years, now he’s the legendary folk musician. No need to ride any giant sandworms or create magical chocolate, it’s all about Dylan‘s early days. This film project has been on the cards for many years, passing to director to director, actor to actor. Director Mangold is no stranger to the musical biopic with the Dial Of Destiny director’s Johnny Cash‘s Walk The Line.

A Complete Unknown is set in the early part of the 1960’s. A young 19 year Bob Dylan influence on the New York Folk scene is in it’s infancy leading up to the iconic Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

The trailer is short and like many first trailers, don’t show a lot. What we get is a good look at Chalamet as Dylan. solid teaser, no indication of how different this film might be to other Music biopics…

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) 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.

A Complete Unknown is set to be released in UK and Irish cinemas from January 2025. If you live in the U.S, you can watch the film in December, exact date still to be announced.

Co-starring Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie. Monica Barbaro, Dan Fogler, Charlie Tahan, P.J. Byrne, and Michael Chernus.


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