Benedict Cumberbatch has been forged to painting Pete Seeger within the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, director James Mangold informed Deadline in a brand new interview. The film facilities round Dylan’s groundbreaking electrical set on the Newport Folks Pageant in 1965. As a legendary folks musician and longtime affect to Dylan, with regard to each his music and activism, Seeger performs a vital half in Dylan’s real-life story. He was an early supporter of the then-rising artist, helped his debut album land at Columbia, and invited him to carry out at Newport Folks Pageant.
Final month, it was revealed that Timothée Chalamet will play Dylan whereas Monica Barbaro has been tapped to painting Joan Baez. Additionally becoming a member of the forged is Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, a college pupil and artist billed as Dylan’s love curiosity within the early ’60s. (Dylan famously dated artist Suze Rotolo, who seems on the duvet of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, for a number of years throughout that very same interval, nevertheless Deadline and IMDB each spell Fanning’s character as Sylvie Russo.)
A Full Unknown will start manufacturing in New York this summer season. It was co-produced by James Mangold, who co-wrote the movie alongside Jay Cocks. Bob Dylan himself is without doubt one of the movie’s govt producers, and Mangold beforehand said that Chalamet will do his personal singing for the film.
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