“A Complete Unknown,” the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as the famed musician, will hit theaters on Christmas Day. It is scheduled to debut on the big screen on December 25.
“A Compete Unknown” will arrive on the same day as Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” and a week after Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King.”
The biographical drama 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.
Set in New York in the early 1960s, the movie begins as the enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in Greenwich Village and ignites an “upheaval in the folk community” when, in 1965, he straps on an electric guitar.
The first teaser trailer, which debuted in July, gives a glimpse at Chalamet walking the streets of Manhattan, passing Dylan’s favorite spots including Cafe Wha? and Hotel Chelsea.
The actor (who does his singing) presents 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.”
James Mangold directs the biographical drama from a script he co-wrote with Jay Cocks.
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.
The real-life Dylan, 83, gave notes on the script and took multiple meetings with Mangold.
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.”
“I’ve spent several, wonderfully charming, days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him,” Mangold said earlier this summer. “I have a script that’s personally annotated by him and treasured by me.”
“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 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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