Timothée Chalamet Channels Bob Dylan in First Official Photo From ‘A Complete Unknown’

We’ve gotten our first glimpse of Timothée Chalamet in a new role that sees him use the voice—Bob Dylan’s, that is. The Wonka and Dune: Part Two star is deep in the process of making the biopic A Complete Unknown, in which he stars as a young version of the legendary singer-songwriter. On Tuesday, director James Mangold shared the first official snap of Chalamet as Dylan, showing the actor strolling through the street past Manhattan’s Hotel Chelsea.

Mangold’s photo, the first official picture released from the set of A Complete Unknown, comes in the wake of paparazzi snaps revealing Chalamet as the young Dylan. Mangold posted the image on his personal X account, sharing its specs and the model of camera used to capture it in the caption: “Photo by JM w/ Leica SL3 Summicron-SL APO 50mm 2.8 1/160 ISO 12500.” 

In the photo, Chalamet is wearing a quintessentially Dylan outfit, decked out in the troubadour’s classic black suede jacket, boots, and dark sunglasses, complete with unkempt hair. Chalamet is seen walking down the middle of West 23rd Street in Manhattan, past the neon glow of the Hotel Chelsea—the historic hotel and commune where Dylan lived in the early 1960s and wrote a number of songs, including “Sara.” 

Written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, A Complete Unknown captures Dylan at the dawn of his career, following the 19-year-old Minnesotan as he moves to New York to pursue music in the early 1960s. The film charts Dylan’s meteoric rise from playing back rooms of bars to performing in concert halls, centering on Dylan’s electric rock performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

A Complete Unknown is also chock-full of other actors portraying legendary figures from the ’60s music scene, including Monica Barbaro as folk icon and activist Joan Baez; Boyd Holbrook as country superstar Johnny Cash; and Edward Norton as folk singer Pete Seeger. Elle Fanning will portray Dylan’s love interest, artist and college student Sylvie Russo. The producing team behind A Complete Unknown includes Chalamet, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, and even Jeff Rosen, Dylan’s longtime representative. 

As of now, the release date for A Complete Unknown is still completely unknown.

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