“And it’s a tough rain’s a-gonna fall,” Timothée Chalamet belts onstage, his signature curly mop frizzed out on the highest of his head. No, this isn’t his newest musical efficiency à la “Statistics” or Wonka. It’s a scene from the official first trailer for the James Mangold-directed Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown. The much-anticipated movie doesn’t but have an official launch date, though Mangold has supplied a touch at when to count on it in theaters. Right here, all the things to know thus far.
Who’s within the forged of A Full Unknown?
Chalamet isn’t the one marquee act within the movie. Whereas he performs Bob Dylan, Elle Fanning stars as his girlfriend, Sylvie Russo (the director advised Rolling Stone that Fanning’s character is a renamed model of Suze Rotolo, Dylan’s real-life girlfriend from that point interval. Rotolo was featured on the quilt of Dylan’s 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan). Monica Barbaro, of High Gun fame, performs musician Joan Baez, with whom Bob Dylan had an extended musical (and romantic) relationship. Edward Norton performs the folks singer and activist Pete Seeger. And Boyd Holbrook performs Johnny Money—the topic of Mangold’s beforehand directed biopic, Stroll the Line.
Elle Fanning and Timothée Chalamet as Sylvie Russo and Bob Dylan in A Full Unknown.
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Folks singers Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (the actual ones) carry out throughout a civil rights rally on August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C.
Photograph by Rowland Scherman/Nationwide Archive/Newsmakers
What’s the plot of A Full Unknown?
The movie begins with Dylan’s 1961 transfer from Duluth, Minnesota, to New York’s West Village, the place he created among the finest works of his profession. The film ends shortly after his legendary efficiency on the 1965 Newport Folks Competition. Alongside the way in which, the trailer suggests there will probably be a powerful plotline regarding Dylan’s sophisticated relationships with Baez and Russo; the musician was traditionally recognized to be a womanizer. “[The movie is] actually following Bob, however I’m far more within the wake that this individual has left on others as a lot as I’m inquisitive about unpacking who he’s in some sort of typical movie-Freudian approach,” ” Mangold advised Rolling Stone. “That’s why Elle’s character and Pete Seeger, Edward’s character, and Joan Baez, after all, and plenty of others are extra than simply passing by means of in a sort of Corridor of Presidents pageant. They’re important gamers coming out and in of the film. All of them had been instrumental in [Bob’s] journey within the years between ’61 and ’65, however all of them additionally interacted with him in numerous methods which might be prisms and keyholes to totally different features of who Bob is likely to be.”
A nonetheless from A Full Unknown.
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Was Bob Dylan concerned in A Full Unknown?
Sure. Based on the Rolling Stone article, Mangold met with the long-lasting singer-songwriter, now 83 years outdated, to seek the advice of him on the movie. “The primary time I sat down with him, Bob stated, ‘What’s this film about, Jim?’” Mangold advised Rolling Stone. “I stated, ‘It’s a couple of man who’s choking to loss of life in Minnesota, and leaves behind all his family and friends and reinvents himself in a model new place, makes new buddies, builds a brand new household, turns into phenomenally profitable, begins to choke to loss of life once more — and runs away. ‘I like that,’” Dylan replied.
Is there a trailer for A Full Unknown?
As of July 24, sure, a teaser trailer has dropped. Each Chalamet and Fanning posted it to their Instagram accounts.
Does A Full Unknown have a launch date?
Whereas there’s no official launch date for A Full Unknown simply but Mangold hints that tit could possibly be in theaters as quickly as December 2024, best for vacation theater goers. “You possibly can’t launch a film like this in February or March,” he added.
