The eagerly anticipated biopic about Bob Dylan’s life, A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet arrives next year – but does the actor sing as Dylan in the film?
A new trailer for A Complete Unknown was released today (July 24) and in it we get the first glimpse of Chalamet as the folk icon.
The new film will arrive in cinemas in January 2025 and will see Chalamet take on the role of Dylan during his early rise to fame.
A synopsis reads: “Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) 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.”
The movie stars Chalamet alongside Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Buzt and Scoot McNairy.
You can watch the trailer here:
Does Chalamet sing Dylan’s songs in the film?
Yes, Chalamet does indeed sings several Dylan songs during the film. In the latest trailer, he can be heard singing one of Dylan’s biggest hits, ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’. You can listen to it above.
It was confirmed by director James Mangold last year that Chalamet would sing in A Complete Unknown, with the actor having showcased his vocal abilities in the Christmas musical movie Wonka.
Speaking to Collider at the time, Mangold (Walk The Line and Girl, Interrupted) said: “It’s such an amazing time in American culture, and the story of Bob’s – a young, 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with two dollars in his pocket and becoming a worldwide sensation within three years.”
He continued: “First being embraced into a family of folk music in New York and of course kind of outrunning him at a certain point as his star rises so beyond belief.
“It’s such an interesting true story and about such an interesting moment in the American scene.”
In a recent interview with NME alongside his Dune: Part Two co-star Austin Butler, Chalamet said he would have liked Butler’s version of Elvis Presley, from the Baz Luhrmann hit Elvis, to appear in A Complete Unknown.