Timothée Chalamet turns into Bob Dylan within the new biopic A Complete Unknown. As the brand new trailer reveals, the Dune actor singing reside and sounding astonishingly just like the people singer. Hollywood Life has rounded up every thing it’s essential to know concerning the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, beneath!

‘A Complete Unknown’ Release Date

The Searchlight Pictures biopic is scheduled to hit theaters on December 25, 2024, as proven in its official theatrical poster.

Who Is within the Bob Dylan Biopic Cast?

Apart from Timmy, who performs Bob within the film, the movie is full with a star-studded forged. Elle Fanning performs the function of Bob’s former girlfriend Sylvie Russo, and Monica Barbaro performs people singer Joan Baez. Award-winning actor Edward Norton performs music artist Pete Seeger, and Boyd Holbrook performs Johnny Cash.

‘A Complete Unknown’ Trailer

In the trailer, Timmy is heard singing one among Bob’s hits “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”

Does Timothee Sing in ‘A Complete Unknown’?

According to A Complete Unknown director James Mangold, the Call Me By Your Name star does, actually, sing on this film. While talking with Rolling Stone in July 2024, the Walk the Line director confirmed that Timmy “was a partner in this” endeavor, referring to offering vocals for the movie.

“You want everyone putting everything on the line every moment,” James defined to the publication. “But it’s not [like] if one of our actors hit a bad note, I don’t have an alternative take or the ability to replace that one beat. If Timmy’s brave enough to stand out there and make himself vulnerable, throwing himself at this, I should be brave enough to stand behind the camera and shoot. And Timmy was a partner in this. He very much wanted to.”

The filmmaker additionally identified that the biopic had been in growth for a number of years.

“And the multiple years of preparation that we had on this movie because of false starts with Covid and stuff meant that Timmy really had a kind of incubation as a musician that was years in happening,” James added. “And Monica Barbaro as well. She was cast when we were gonna make the movie before Indy. So a lot of these people have been in place for an incredible amount of time, and used that time incredibly successfully in their own musical journey.”

Was Bob Dylan Involved With the Movie?

The director additionally confirmed that Bob was, certainly, concerned within the creation of A Complete Unknown. While recalling assembly with the “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” hitmaker, James informed the people artist that the film is “about a guy who’s choking to death in Minnesota, and leaves behind all his friends and family and reinvents himself in a brand new place, makes new friends, builds a new family, becomes phenomenally successful, starts to choke to death again — and runs away.”

James recalled Bob saying, “I like that idea,” in response.