A COMPLETE UNKNOWN Starring Timothée Chalamet | Poster and Official Trailer

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We’ve all had opinions about Timothée Chalamet’s casting as the legend Bob Dylan for A Complete Unknown as we saw the on-location shots and teaser trailer roll in, but now it’s time for the main event of the pre-main event, aka, the release of the official trailer to let us know if our predictions and suppositions were true. Did he nail it? Is it going to be painful? You tell us? (But also, we’ll tell you what we think at the bottom of the post.)

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It’s giving Walk the Line. That is neither a good or a bad thing, it’s just an indication of what kind of film it’s going to be and with this trailer, we think it’s obvious. It’s a standard Oscar bait music biopic. He’s doing a decent job of capturing certain aspects of Dylan. The one thing he can’t master is Dylan’s “old man” comportment. Chalamet comes off too youthful, not because he’s too young, but because Dylan always came across half a century older than he was and that’s a hard quality to capture. He’ll get good reviews and probably an Oscar nomination out of it, but this trailer isn’t indicating anything new or fresh about the approach.

ABOUT THE MOVIE:
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.  As he forms his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement and, refusing to be defined, makes a controversial choice that culturally reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, and Scoot McNairy
Directed by James Mangold
Produced by Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, Timothée Chalamet, James Mangold
ONLY in theaters this December.

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