Timothee Chalamet sings Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown trailer

Timothee Chalamet is seen singing as Bob Dylan within the first trailer for a brand new movie wherein he performs the folk-rock legend as a younger man.

The biopic, titled A Full Unknown, has been given a December launch date for the US – a main time to be in rivalry for subsequent yr’s Oscars.

The movie begins with Chalamet’s Dylan arriving in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1961 along with his acoustic guitar in his hand and $12 in his pocket, and ends after he controversially “went electrical” 4 years later.

Within the trailer, Chalamet is seen with Dylan’s distinctive tousled hair, performing his 1963 traditional A Exhausting Rain’s a‐Gonna Fall.

Director James Mangold – who additionally made Oscar-winning 2005 Johnny Money biopic Stroll the Line – mentioned the actor had been “courageous sufficient to face on the market and make himself weak, throwing himself at this”.

His vocals usually went down nicely on social media.

“Timmy doing his personal singing AND PULLING IT OFF. Coloration me impressed,” wrote one consumer on X.

“Did Timothee sing the songs himself? If sure then unimaginable, it sounds a lot like Dylan. Wow,” one other mentioned.

Nonetheless, some have been much less impressed. “That singing ain’t it,” one wrote.

Mangold informed Rolling Stone the actors did their very own singing – with the proviso that he might repair something obligatory in post-production.

“You need everybody placing every part on the road each second,” he mentioned. “But it surely’s not [like] if certainly one of our actors hit a nasty be aware, I don’t have an alternate take or the flexibility to exchange that one beat.

“If Timmy’s courageous sufficient to face on the market and make himself weak, throwing himself at this, I must be courageous sufficient to face behind the digicam and shoot.

“And Timmy was a accomplice on this. He very a lot wished to. And the a number of years of preparation that we had on this film due to false begins with Covid and stuff meant that Timmy actually had a form of incubation as a musician that was years in taking place.”

A Full Unknown follows Dylan’s rise to fame, because the artist who revolutionised American music along with his private and poetic folk-rock songs.

Mangold mentioned he was interested in “this concept of a expertise like Bob, so vexing, so provocative, so full of fiction and truth”.

“This concept of this unimaginable, inventive character touchdown in New York with $12 in his pocket – attempting to string the needle of how one goes from there to there may be so fascinating to me,” he mentioned.

The director received the blessing of the true Dylan, who’s listed as an government producer.

Chalamet has already starred in two of the largest movies of the previous yr – Wonka and Dune: Half Two.

The 28-year-old might now be in rivalry for his second Oscar nomination, after being nominated for his breakthrough movie, Name Me by Your Title, in 2018.

The forged of A Full Unknown additionally contains Edward Norton as people legend Pete Seeger and Monica Barbaro as singer Joan Baez.

Dylan has beforehand been performed on display by Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw and Marcus Carl Franklin – all within the 2007 movie I am Not There.