Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan

“A Complete Unknown” Chalamet as Bob Dylan

 Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan

James Mangold directs A Complete Unknown, a biographical drama based on Elijah Wald’s book Dylan Goes Electric! Mangold and Jay Cooks wrote the script.

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan
Timothée Chalamet in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Photo by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 1960s, the film follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan, played by Timothée Chalamet. His meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts—his songs and charisma becoming a worldwide sensation—culminated in his groundbreaking electric performance in 1965.

A Complete Unknown
Timothée Chalamet Photo by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Ellen Fanning plays Dylan’s girlfriend, Monica Barbaro plays Joan Baez, and Ed Norton plays folk legend Pete Seeger.

James Mangold directing Timothée Chalamet
Director James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet on the set of A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Photo by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Other movies directed by James Mangold:

Walk The Line

Logan

Ford v Ferrari

Indian Jones and the Dial of Destiny