The teaser trailer for the new film about Bob Dylan has been released.
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN stars Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Timothée Chalamet alongside Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Edward Norton and in the trailer we see Chalamet taking on the 1960s classic “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.”
Directed by James Mangold, who was responsible for the biopic about Johnny Cash, “Walk the Line” the new film about Dylan will be released by Searchlight Pictures in cinemas across Ireland in January 2025.
Based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book “Dylan Goes Electric” and originally titled “Going Electric,” A COMPLETE UNKNOWN borrows a phrase from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”
The synopsis for the film says it is “set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s and follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965”.
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN also stars Elle Fanning (The Great, Maleficent), Monica Barbaro (Top Gun: Maverick), Boyd Holbrook (Logan, The Bikeriders), Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Walking Dead), Norbert Leo Buzt (Dan in Real Life), and Scoot McNairy (Argo, 12 Years A Slave).
Often considered to be one of the greatest songwriters in history, 83 year old Bob Dylan has been a major figure in musiv over his 60-year career. He rose to prominence in the 1960s, when songs such as “The Times They Are a-Changin'” became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. He has sold more than 125 million records, making him one of the best-selling musicians ever. He has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ten Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded him a special citation for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” In 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
