Timothee Chalamet and James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” starts shooting on August 7th.
Chalamet will be doing his own singing in the musical biopic. Hopefully he nails the nasally Dylan voice …
Elle Fanning has been added to the cast, she’ll be playing Sylvia Russo, a university student and artist who was Dylan’s girlfriend in the early ’60s. She’ll thus be reuniting with her “Rainy Day in New York” co-star Chalamet.
”A Complete Unknown” was greenlit by Fox Searchlight during the pandemic. It is said to follow Dylan as he “rises to fame on his way to becoming a folk music icon.”
This would ideally take place during the singer’s beginnings in the 1960 folk scene in New York City’s Greenwich Village up until Dylan’s 1966 motorcycle crash. A 6-year stretch that had the musician quite literally changing the world with his song lyrics.
Jay Cocks (Gangs of New York) wrote the script, with Mangold handling revisions.