The teaser for James Mangold‘s “A Complete Unknown” has been unveiled, along with the first official glimpse of Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan.
In theaters this December, the biographical drama, written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, follows the folk music legend’s early years in New York City, leading up to the Earth-shattering moment he strapped on an electric guitar during his 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance.
In the footage, Chalamet walks the streets of Manhattan, passing Dylan’s favorite spots including Cafe Wha? and Hotel Chelsea.
The actor sings a rendition of Dylan’s 1963 protest song “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.” And a love triangle begins to brew between Dylan and Monica Barbaro’s Joan Baez and Elle Fanning’s Sylvie Russo, who appears to be a fictionalized version of Dylan’s then-partner Suze Rotolo, who appears on the album cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”
“A Complete Unknown” also features 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.
The movie is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book “Dylan Goes Electric” and originally titled “Going Electric,” and borrows a phrase from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” — the plugged-in folk-rock anthem that changed everything.
Mangold has described Dylan in his movie as “a wanderer who comes in from Minnesota with a fresh name and a fresh outlook on life.” His arrival in New York ignites an “upheaval in the folk community and what they thought was proper folk and illicit folk.”
The real-life Dylan, 83, gave notes on the script and took multiple meetings with Mangold.
The movie began production in March in New York and New Jersey, as paparazzi photos of Chalamet went viral on social media.
From Searchlight Pictures, “A Complete Unknown” is produced by Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Chalamet, and Mangold.
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