Timothée Chalamet toting a guitar case certain brings collectively the look of how Bob Dylan went from struggling artist to later changing into one of many biggest songwriters of all time.
Full with a fisherman’s cap and rugged scarf, new images of the “Dune: Half Two” and “Wonka” actor on the New York set of a forthcoming film about Dylan present him in the course of the singer’s younger grownup years.
The movie might be helmed by “Ford v Ferrari” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future” director James Mangold, who confirmed to Collider final 12 months that Chalamet will really be singing within the film.
Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro and Nick Offerman are among the many different solid members listed on the IMDb web page for the movie, reportedly titled “A Full Unknown.”
Mangold was tapped to direct the movie in early 2020, Deadline reported on the time. The web site additional reported that the movie would cowl Dylan’s well-known and controversial second when he pivoted to the electrical guitar.
Chalamet has stated that he has acquired a few of Dylan’s unreleased music.
“I really feel so deeply respectful of his world of Dylanologists, so one thing like that isn’t — I don’t take for … it’s not braggadocios. It’s actually making an attempt to honor this man,” he advised the British music outlet NME in February.
Dylan has been concerned within the making of the movie, Mangold stated on the podcast “Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused” in 2023.
“I’ve spent a number of splendidly charming days in his firm simply one-on-one speaking to him, sure. And I’ve a script that is personally annotated by him and treasured by me,” Mangold stated.
He added that the film spotlights Dylan’s journey and the completely different individuals who helped launch him into stardom.
“It is not likely a Bob Dylan biopic,” Mangold stated, later including, “It’s a sort of ensemble piece about this second in time within the early ’60s in New York, and this 17-year-old child with $16 in his pocket who hitchhikes his option to New York to fulfill Woody Guthrie, who’s being saved within the hospital and is dying of a nerve illness, and sings Woody a track that he wrote for him and befriends Pete Seeger, who is sort of a son to Woody, and Pete units him up with gigs in native golf equipment. And there you meet Joan Baez and all these different people who find themselves a part of this world.”