A Complete Unknown Trailer Sees Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan Go Electric

Tired out by the deluge of atypical music movies? Last week we got the trailer for Robbie Williams chimp biopic Better Man, while cinemagoers will soon be greeted with Pharrell’s LEGO-styled take on his own life in documentary Piece By Piece – but playing it more straight is A Complete Unknown, the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold, with Timothée Chalamet donning the acoustic (and later, importantly, electric) guitar as the ‘60s folk icon. Take a look at the latest trailer here:

This latest look at the film centres more on the specific angle of the story Mangold is telling – not just Dylan’s rise through the folk scene (and proximity to fellow musicians like Joan Baez, played here by Monica Barbaro), but exploring the fallout and cultural impact of the moment he decided to ‘go electric’, changing up his sound to considerable outcry. Plus, we hear more of Chalamet singing those iconic Dylan tunes, see images that echo legendary bits of iconography (like The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album cover), and get more of Edward Norton as Pete Seeger and Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (a fictionalised version of Suze Rotolo). If it’s a more conventional biopic than other upcoming films, Mangold has real form here – just look at his Johnny Cash film Walk The Line.

See how A Complete Unknown fares when it barrels into cinemas – like, yes, a rolling stone – on 17 January.