A Full Unknown, the Timothee Chalamet/ Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold, now has an official launch date.
James Mangold isn’t any stranger to the musical biopic, having introduced Johnny Money’s story to the massive display with Stroll the Line, which acquired Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award nomination for that movie. Now, Mangold takes on one other musical icon with the Bob Dylan biopic, A Full Unknown. There was a extra summary try at telling Dylan’s story with Todd Haynes’ 2007 movie I’m Not There, which featured an all-star forged and a number of actors taking part in Bob Dylan in a distinct part of his life with a singular interpretation, together with Cate Blanchett sporting his iconic look. Searchlight Footage has dropped the trailer for A Full Unknown, which stars Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro. The movie additionally co-stars Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy, with the studio additionally giving it a December twenty fifth extensive launch. Given how effectively Chalamet’s Wonka did through the vacation season final yr, the studio is probably going hoping that lightning will strike twice. The date additionally provides is peak visibility throughout award season.
Right here’s the official synopsis: “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.”
James Mangold directs from a screenplay written by him and Jay Cocks, who is understood for working with Martin Scorsese on initiatives resembling Gangs of New York and Silence. Producers on the movie embody Vary’s Fred Berger, The Image Firm’s Alex Heineman, Veritas Entertainment Group’s Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, Bob Dylan’s longtime consultant Jeff Rosen, Chalamet, and Mangold through his Turnpike Movies. Michael Bederman, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Andrew Rona are on board as government producers.
Mangold just lately talked concerning the setting of the movie, saying, “It’s such an amazing time in American culture, and the story of Bob’s — a young, 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with two dollars in his pocket and becoming a worldwide sensation within three years…First being embraced into a family of folk music in New York and of course kind of outrunning him at a certain point as his star rises so beyond belief.”
