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After a number of delays in manufacturing, the brand new Bob Dylan biopic has began filming — which implies a primary have a look at actor Timothée Chalamet because the legendary folks singer.
Costumed in an army-green jacket and a newsboy cap, Chalamet was pictured filming “A Full Unknown,” a film chronicling the singer-songwriter’s profession beginnings, in New York this weekend, setting off a stream of each pleasure and jokes amongst followers.
“He seems to be like he’s going to Camp Rock,” one X user quipped, referencing a Disney film a couple of musical summer season camp.
“This isn’t Bob Dylan, it’s merely each man who has ever tried to speak to me about Bob Dylan,” wrote author Marissa R. Moss.
Others joked that Chalamet appeared like Fievel, the animated mouse in “An American Tail.”
After first being introduced in 2020, manufacturing for “A Full Unknown” skilled quite a few lags, from the pandemic to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Nonetheless, the film has retained full assist from Dylan himself, who gave director James Mangold detailed annotated notes on the script.
“I’ve spent a number of splendidly charming days in his firm, simply one-on-one, speaking to him,” Mangold mentioned final yr. “He loves motion pictures.”
The film isn’t actually a Dylan biopic, Mangold has mentioned, and is as a substitute extra targeted on a second within the singer’s life.
“It’s a type of an 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 technique to New York to fulfill Woody Guthrie who’s within the hospital,” Mangold mentioned.
Chalamet might be doing his own singing within the film and has hired the same vocal and dialect coaches that labored with Austin Butler in “Elvis.”
Dylan has been notoriously elusive, and his life and profession have been the topic of a number of motion pictures. One, 2007’s “I’m Not There,” directed by Todd Haynes, solid six totally different actors as Dylan’s a number of personas. Martin Scorsese made a live performance movie in 2019 referred to as “Rolling Thunder Revue,” chronicling Dylan’s 1975 tour of the identical title.
“A Full Unknown” doesn’t but have a launch date.