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Bob Dylan inputting on Bob Dylan biopic, director confirms
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 6 July 2023
Bob Dylan has been inputting on ‘A Complete Unknown’, the in-development Bob Dylan biopic. Or so says the film’s director James Mangold.
The director spoke to the Happy Sad Confused podcast about the new movie, which is due to begin filming next month with Timothée Chalamet playing the lead role.
Asked about Dylan’s input, he said that the musician had “personally annotated” the script and spent several days with the director discussing the project.
According to NME, Mangold also noted that the film will not be a “typical biopic”, it being focused on a specific time in Dylan’s life.
“It’s a kind of ensemble piece about this moment in time”, he explained, “the early 60s in New York, and this seventeen year old kid with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes his way to New York to meet Woody Guthrie who is in the hospital and is dying of a nerve disease”.
“And he sings Woody a song that he wrote for him and befriends Pete Seeger, who is like a son to Woody”, the director went on. “And Pete sets him up with gigs at local clubs and there you meet Joan Baez and all these other people who are part of this world”.
“And this wanderer who comes in from Minnesota with a fresh name and a fresh outlook on life”, he added, “becomes a star, signs to the biggest record company in the world within a year and, three years later, has record sales rivalling The Beatles”.
