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Timothée Chalamet performs Bob Dylan within the upcoming movie “A Full Unknown.”
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After a number of delays in manufacturing, the brand new Bob Dylan biopic has began filming — which implies a primary take a look at actor Timothée Chalamet because the legendary folks singer.
Costumed in an army-green jacket and a newsboy cap, Chalamet was pictured filming “A Full Unknown,” a film chronicling the singer-songwriter’s profession beginnings, in New York this weekend, setting off a stream of each pleasure and jokes amongst followers.
“He appears like he’s going to Camp Rock,” one X consumer quipped, referencing a Disney film a few musical summer time camp.
“This isn’t Bob Dylan, it’s merely each man who has ever tried to speak to me about Bob Dylan,” wrote creator Marissa R. Moss.
Others joked that Chalamet seemed like Fievel, the animated mouse in “An American Tail.”
After first being introduced in 2020, manufacturing for “A Full Unknown” skilled quite a few lags, from the pandemic to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Nonetheless, the film has retained full assist from Dylan himself, who gave director James Mangold detailed annotated notes on the script.
“I’ve spent a number of splendidly charming days in his firm, simply one-on-one, speaking to him,” Mangold mentioned final 12 months. “He loves motion pictures.”
The film isn’t actually a Dylan biopic, Mangold has mentioned, and is as an alternative extra targeted on a second within the singer’s life.
“It’s a type of an ensemble piece about this second in time, the early ’60s in New York, and this 17-year-old child with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes his approach to New York to fulfill Woody Guthrie who’s within the hospital,” Mangold mentioned.
Chalamet will likely be doing his personal singing within the film and has employed the identical vocal and dialect coaches that labored with Austin Butler in “Elvis.”
Dylan has been notoriously elusive, and his life and profession have been the topic of a number of motion pictures. One, 2007’s “I’m Not There,” directed by Todd Haynes, forged six totally different actors as Dylan’s a number of personas. Martin Scorsese made a live performance movie in 2019 referred to as “Rolling Thunder Revue,” chronicling Dylan’s 1975 tour of the identical title.
“A Full Unknown” doesn’t but have a launch date.