It’s fitting that, alongside the latest (and perhaps last) entry in the franchise that James Mangold helped save back in 2013, we’ve got a first-look teaser at his latest picture to pair with it. And boy howdy, is it something silly as hell. Yep, that’s right: Get ready to hear Timothée Chalamet force every ounce of air in his lungs out of his nasal cavity as the one and only Robert Zimmerman in A Complete Unknown. Oops, we mean “Bob Dylan.”
Seriously, this is like Inside Llewyn Davis, but without any of that fun fictionalization. Or I’m Not There, but without the style or Cate Blanchett! But hey, we’re just joking around: It’ll be interesting to see what Mangold — the man who brought us Walk the Line, after all — does with this slice of Americana. Is Timmy gonna get an Oscar? Already? Who knows. You be the judge, at least from this first trailer that Searchlight dropped on Wednesday.
Peep it:
Here’s a synopsis and cast list:
“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. A Film By James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy.”
Maybe this will give Dan Fogler the cred he needs to make that Sam Kinison biopic he’s been hinting at over the years. Who knows?
Anyway, A Complete Unknown will arrive theaters… at some point in December. Seriously, there’s no solid date yet. Cash money this is a big ol’ premiere at NYFF, though. Could you imagine this debuting anywhere else? It’s genuinely more likely to bypass festivals entirely than, say, drop at TIFF.