The new trailer for A Complete Unknown – a biopic about Bob Dylan starring Timothée Chalamet – has been released today (July 24). Check it out below.
The new film, which will arrive in cinemas in January 2025, will see Chalamet take on the role of the iconic musician during his rise to fame.
A synopsis reads: “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.”
The movie stars Chalamet alongside Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Buzt and Scoot McNairy.
In the trailer, Chalamet can be heard singing Dylan’s iconic song ‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’. Watch here:
Back in May, footage of Chalamet as Dylan in A Complete Unknown with Norton emerged online.
The Dune star was previously captured in New Jersey filming a scene alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez.
The biopic is set to explore Dylan’s transition to using the electric guitar in the ’60s, his rise to fame, and his subsequent achievement of icon status in the folk-rock music industry.
It was confirmed by director James Mangold last year that Chalamet would sing in A Complete Unknown, with the actor having showcased his vocal abilities in the Christmas musical movie Wonka.
Speaking to Collider at the time, Mangold (Walk The Line and Girl, Interrupted) said: “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.”
He continued: “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.
“It’s such an interesting true story and about such an interesting moment in the American scene.”
In a recent interview with NME alongside his Dune: Part Two co-star Austin Butler, Chalamet said he would have liked Butler’s version of Elvis Presley, from the Baz Luhrmann hit Elvis, to appear in A Complete Unknown.
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