The film, featuring Dune star Timothee Chalamet as the influential folk singer, follows Dylan’s early days in the 1960s, culminating in his controversial performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, after he had gone electric. In a post announcing the release date, the film’s producers Searchlight Pictures said: “A glimpse of the future. “A Complete Unknown, a film by James Mangold, starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, coming only to theatres December 25.
” A glimpse of the future. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, a film by James Mangold, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, coming only to theaters December 25th. — Searchlight Pictures (@searchlightpics) A trailer for the film sees the 28-year-old actor wearing Dylan-style clothing and singing A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
The teaser begins with glimpses of Chalamet, with curly brown hair and dark glasses, walking the streets of what appears to be New York City, where Dylan’s career took off. Fight Club actor Edward Norton – as fellow folk singer Pete Seeger – introduces a young Dylan to a small crowd in a venue. He says: “I want to tell you a little story.
A few months back my friend Woody Guthrie and I, we met a young man, he dropped in on us out of nowhere, and he played us a song. In that moment we got a feeling we were getting a glimpse of the future.” Chalamet then appears performing as Dylan, with the clip interspersed with footage of him at a church venue, where he looks at The Great actress Elle F.