Timothée Chalamet will sing within the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic directed by James Mangold.
Throughout an interview with Collider at London’s Star Wars Celebration revealed on Friday (April 7), Mangold was requested whether or not the star who’s enjoying Dylan would sing for the Searchlight Photos movie, as a substitute of dubbing Dylan’s voice in. The director replied, “After all!”
Mangold mentioned he thinks the undertaking, primarily based on Elijah Wald’s e-book Dylan Goes Electrical and a script from Jay Cocks, will start filming in “August of this 12 months.”
“It’s such an incredible time in American tradition,” Mangold — who additionally directed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, hitting theaters in June — mentioned when requested what drew him to the Dylan movie. “The story of a younger, 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with like two {dollars} in his pocket and changing into a worldwide sensation inside three years — first being embraced into the household of folks music in New York after which, in fact, type of outrunning them at a sure level as his star rises so past perception. It’s such an attention-grabbing true story and about such an attention-grabbing second within the American scene.”
He added that Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez “all have a task to play on this film,” although the actors forged for these roles haven’t but been introduced.
Watch the interview clip under.
