As musician biopics, starting from The Beatles to Bruce Springsteen, look to outpace superhero films within the subsequent few years by way of amount and probably recognition, A Full Unknown seems to steer the cost.
Starring Timothée Chalamet and directed by James Mangold, A Full Unknown follows folks music icon Bob Dylan from the years 1961 to 1965, as he makes an unprecedented leap into creating music with electrically-amplified devices, dividing followers of his earlier work as an acoustic-based outcast in a time of nice change in America (get it? form of just like the well-known tune?). Beforehand, the Bob Dylan biopic was titled Going Electrical throughout pre-production and casting.
Filming for A Full Unknown just lately started in March 2024, with Chalamet, wanting completely the half in sun shades and Dylan’s signature curls, shot a scene with fellow musician and a former flame of Dylan’s on the time, Joan Baez, performed by actress Monica Barbaro.
Whereas different musician biopics, such because the current movie Bob Marley: One Love, are likely to work alongside their topics (or their estates, if they’re deceased), this isn’t the case for A Full Unknown. Dylan is arguably nearly as well-known for his reclusiveness and aura of thriller as he’s for his music, not often partaking in interviews or showing in public.
With out its topic on the helm, A Full Unknown runs a severe danger of disproval and even upset from Dylan, because the movie seems to painting some of the controversial features of his profession, in addition to his private relationships with Baez, and his former mentor and later critic of his stylistic transition, folks musician Pete Seeger.
Dylan has no producer credit score on the upcoming movie, and seemingly no consulting position in relation to the script or Chalamet’s efficiency, so has the Pulitzer-winning songwriter given Chalamet any steering for what may very well be his greatest position but, or is the younger actor heading into an entire unknown of his personal?
Has Bob Dylan accepted of Timothée Chalamet portraying him?
To this point, as of April 2024, Dylan has given no public assertion on his ideas concerning A Full Unknown. That is no shock from the person who efficiently hid a spouse and youngster from the press for many years, so Mangold, Chalamet, and co. in all probability aren’t anticipating one. Nevertheless, one piece of “gold” that Chalamet has mentioned in interviews surrounding the upcoming biopic could trace at some approval from the voice of a technology.
The 28-year-old actor has revealed that he has entry to hours of unreleased music by Bob Dylan, as given to him by Dylan’s supervisor, Jeff Rosen, who famously by no means discusses his consumer. Though some songs can be found through bootleg, the gathering of recordings starting from 1959 to 1964, are largely unavailable to the general public.
“This would possibly earn the ire and wrath of lots of Bob followers, rightfully, however [Rosen] despatched me like a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Bob stuff from like 1959 to ’64. I really feel like I’m holding onto gold or one thing,” Chalamet instructed superstar interviewer Josh Horowitz.
Whereas this isn’t an authorized stamp of approval from the person himself, the Oscar-nominated actor will need to have some friendliness with Dylan’s camp whereas he ready for the position within the hotly-anticipated flick.
What did Bob Dylan consider his earlier biopic, I’m Not There?
Again in 2007, the largest Bob Dylan biopic to be launched to date, I’m Not There, hit theaters. An experimental movie by director Todd Haynes, six actors — Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw — portrayed six completely different personas of the music icon. The movie acquired specific reward for its unorthodox casting, with Blanchett, a girl, and Franklin, a toddler of African-American descent, portraying Dylan.
When requested concerning the movie by Rolling Stone in 2012, Dylan responded that “he thought it was all proper,” which is arguably excessive reward for a person of few (spoken) phrases. He went on so as to add some compliments, nonetheless. “I believed it appeared good, and people actors have been unbelievable.”
Director Todd Haynes was applauded by the musician for his inventive authenticity, with the songwriter including “Do you assume that [Haynes] was nervous that individuals would perceive it or not? I don’t assume he cared one bit. I simply assume he needed to make a great film.”