Timothée Chalamet turns into Bob Dylan within the new biopic A Full Unknown. As the brand new trailer reveals, the Dune actor sang dwell and sounds astonishingly much like the folks singer. Hollywood Life has rounded up every part it is advisable to know concerning the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, beneath!
‘A Full Unknown’ Launch Date
The Searchlight Photos biopic is scheduled to hit theaters on December 25, 2024, as proven in its official theatrical poster.
Who Is within the Bob Dylan Biopic Solid?
Aside from Timmy, who performs Bob within the film, the movie is full with a star-studded forged. Elle Fanning performs the position of Bob’s former girlfriend Sylvie Russo, and Monica Barbaro performs people singer Joan Baez. Award-winning actor Edward Norton performs music artist Pete Seeger, and Boyd Holbrook performs Johnny Money.
‘A Full Unknown’ Trailer
Within the trailer, Timmy is heard singing one in every of Bob’s hits “A Onerous Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
Does Timothee Sing in ‘A Full Unknown’?
In accordance with A Full Unknown director James Mangold, the Name Me By Your Identify star does, in reality, sing on this film. Whereas talking with Rolling Stone in July 2024, the Stroll the Line director confirmed that Timmy “was a accomplice on this” endeavor, referring to offering vocals for the movie.
“You need everybody placing every part on the road each second,” James defined to the publication. “Nevertheless it’s not [like] if one in every of our actors hit a foul word, I don’t have an alternate take or the flexibility to interchange that one beat. If Timmy’s courageous sufficient to face on the market and make himself susceptible, throwing himself at this, I needs to be courageous sufficient to face behind the digicam and shoot. And Timmy was a accomplice on this. He very a lot needed to.”
The filmmaker additionally identified that the biopic had been in growth for a number of years.
“And the a number of years of preparation that we had on this film due to false begins with Covid and stuff meant that Timmy actually had a sort of incubation as a musician that was years in taking place,” James added. “And Monica Barbaro as nicely. She was forged once we have been gonna make the film earlier than Indy. So quite a lot of these individuals have been in place for an unbelievable period of time, and used that point extremely efficiently in their very own musical journey.”
Was Bob Dylan Concerned With the Film?
The director additionally confirmed that Bob was, certainly, concerned within the creation of A Full Unknown. Whereas recalling assembly with the “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” hitmaker, James instructed the folks artist that the film is “a couple of man who’s choking to dying in Minnesota, and leaves behind all his family and friends and reinvents himself in a model new place, makes new pals, builds a brand new household, turns into phenomenally profitable, begins to choke to dying once more — and runs away.”
James recalled Bob saying, “I like that concept,” in response.