(Paris) Timothée Chalamet will perform the living legend of folk rock Bob Dylan in a biopic currently filming in New York, producers announced Tuesday.
At 28 years old, the Franco-American is one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, Dune has Wonkaand multiplies the projects.
The film, by James Mangold, looks back on the beginnings of the interpreter of Blowin’in the Wind Or The Times They Are a-Changin in New York, until a concert given with his electric guitar in 1965 at the Newport Fork Festival.
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Bob Dylan
Mangold signed the last Indiana Jonespresented last year in Cannes, or Ford v Ferrariin the world of car racing, but also Walk the Line, biopic on another rocker, Johnny Cash, with Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.
Titled in English A Complete Unknownthis film is added to the long list of biopics on rock and pop legends, a genre that cinema is very fond of, Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018 on Freddie Mercury at Elvis in 2022.
Back to Blackabout Amy Winehouse, comes out on May 17, after the success in February of Bob Marley: One Love, about the pope of reggae. A biopic on Michael Jackson, performed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson, is also announced for 2025.
These films are often authorized by the star or her entourage, if she is deceased. This is the case with the film about Dylan, the 82-year-old musician and Nobel Prize winner for literature having given access to his archives.