Bob Dylan has personally contributed to the script for director James Mangold’s upcoming biopic primarily based on the legendary people musician.
Chatting with the Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast, Mangold mentioned the upcoming Bob Dylan movie, which shall be titled A Full Unknown. When requested if the Bob Dylan was concerned within the movie in any respect, Mangold revealed that the musician had “personally annotated” the script, and that Dylan and Mangold had spent a number of days collectively discussing the movie.
A Full Unknown, which can star Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, is ready to start filming in August, per feedback from Mangold in April. Mangold additionally confirmed that Chalamet could be doing his personal singing within the movie.
Whereas speaking to Blissful Unhappy Confused, Mangold additionally revealed that the movie won’t be a “typical biopic”, in that it gained’t inform the completely of Dylan’s life and profession thusfar. As an alternative, it’s going to deal with “a really particular second” within the Nineteen Sixties.
“It’s a sort of ensemble piece about this second in time, the early ’60s in New York, and this 17-year-old child with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes his solution to New York to fulfill Woody Guthrie who’s within the hospital and is dying of a nerve illness,” Mangold defined.
“And he sings Woody a music that he wrote for him and befriends Pete Seeger, who is sort of a son to Woody. And Pete units him up with gigs at native golf equipment and there you meet Joan Baez and all these different people who find themselves a part of this world, and this wanderer who is available in from Minnesota with a contemporary title and a contemporary outlook on life, turns into a star, indicators to the largest file firm on the planet inside a yr, and three years later, has file gross sales rivalling the Beatles.”
The challenge was first introduced in 2020, earlier than being delayed indefinitely later that yr with no launch timeframe shared.
Mangold’s most up-to-date work comes within the type of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, which is screening in cinemas now. The movie scored a four-star evaluation with Lou Thomas writing for NME: “It’s a energetic, enthralling story with some significantly emotive scenes within the ultimate act which are certain to trigger a tear or two. Some will ask why make this movie in any respect? The reply must be, why not?”
