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EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight has set 5 extra for main roles in its Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown, directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet: Boyd Holbrook (The Bikeriders), Scoot McNairy (Argo), Dan Fogler (Improbable Beasts and The place to Discover Them), Will Harrison (Daisy Jones & The Six) and Charlie Tahan (Ozark).
Character particulars are underneath wraps. Pic is now in manufacturing in New Jersey.
Different new additions embrace P.J. Byrne (Babylon), Eli Brown (Gossip Lady), Nick Pupo (Halt and Catch Hearth), Massive Invoice Morganfield, Laura Kariuki, Eric Berryman (Atlanta), David Alan Basche (Egg), Joe Tippett (Monarch) and James Austin Johnson (Saturday Night time Stay).
Set within the influential New York music scene of the early ’60s, A Full Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Chalamet) meteoric rise as a people singer to live performance halls and the highest of the charts — his songs and mystique turning into a worldwide sensation — culminating in his groundbreaking electrical rock and roll efficiency on the Newport People Pageant in 1965.
Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro additionally star within the pic written by Mangold and Jay Cocks.
Producers embrace Vary’s Fred Berger, The Image Firm’s Alex Heineman, Veritas Leisure Group’s Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, and 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 government producers. Vice President of Manufacturing Richard Ruiz is overseeing the venture for Searchlight together with Supervisor of Artistic Affairs Cameron Chidsey, reporting to Heads of Manufacturing and Improvement Katie Goodson-Thomas and DanTram Nguyen.
“This movie has been a dream for nearly 5 years now and I’m thrilled to start out taking pictures and grateful for the help of Searchlight, Timothée and all of the gifted actors who’ve come aboard to assist create the distinctive world of this film, set in such a pivotal second of our tradition and populated by such distinctive artists and characters,” stated Mangold in a start-of-production assertion. “I’m additionally profoundly grateful for the help of Bob Dylan and Jeff Rosen in serving to Jay and me and the crew with their recollections, knowledge and entry to their unbelievable archives.”
Added Searchlight Photos President Matthew Greenfield, “With Jim on the helm, and this phenomenal group of actors, we couldn’t be extra excited to start manufacturing on A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, chronicling the early interval of one of many best artists of our time, Bob Dylan.”
Beforehand starring in Mangold’s movies Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future and Logan, Holbrook has additionally starred in Vengeance, O.G., The Predator, The Skeleton Twins and A Stroll Among the many Tombstones, in addition to Narcos, Hatfields & McCoys, and different collection. Up subsequent, he’ll be seen in Jeff Nichols’s acclaimed biker gang drama The Bikeriders, out through Deal with June 21.
McNairy has starred in a number of the most critically acclaimed movies of the final decade, together with Finest Image winners Argo and 12 Years a Slave, in addition to titles like Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, Luckiest Lady Alive, Blonde, C’mon C’mon, and As soon as Upon a Time… In Hollywood. He’ll subsequent be seen in Searchlight’s Nightbitch, directed by Marielle Heller and starring Amy Adams.
Recognized for starring within the Improbable Beasts movies, Fogler has additionally been seen in titles like Balls of Fury and Good Luck Chuck, in addition to collection like The Strolling Lifeless and The Supply.
Breaking out with a serious function in Amazon’s acclaimed miniseries Daisy Jones & The Six, primarily based on the 2019 novel of the identical identify, Harrison can at the moment be seen starring reverse Anthony Boyle and Tobias Menzies in Manhunt for Apple TV+.
Finest recognized for his function as Wyatt Langmore on Netflix’s Ozark, Tahan’s extra lately been seen starring alongside Christian Bale in Netflix pic The Pale Blue Eye. Further credit embrace movies like The Land of Regular Habits, Wiener-Canine and Love Is Unusual, in addition to such collection as Citadel Rock, Gotham and Wayward Pines.Holbrook is represented by WME, Vary Media Companions and Yorn, Levine, Barnes; McNairy by UTA; Fogler by Leisure 360 and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz; Harrison by Gersh and Sugar23; and Tahan by Paradigm, Sugar23, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.