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Directed by Academy Award® nominee James Mangold, A Complete Unknown offers an intimate portrayal of Bob Dylan's transformative years in the early 1960s. Academy Award® nominee Timothée Chalamet delivers a captivating performance as Dylan, capturing his evolution from a burgeoning folk artist to a cultural icon. The film delves into Dylan's relationships with contemporaries like Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy), Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro), and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton), whose influence shaped his early sound and whose reaction to Dylan’s electric set at Newport became the stuff of legend.
Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown is Certified-Fresh and Certified Hot on Rotten Tomatoes™ and critics have lauded Chalamet's portrayal, with The Hollywood Reporternoting “Timothée Chalamet delivers an electrifying, transformative performance.”
Film Synopsis
New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that 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. The film also stars Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie.
Written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, the film is produced by Fred Berger p.g.a., Mangold p.g.a., Alex Heineman p.g.a., Bob Bookman, Peter Jaysen, Alan Gasmer, Jeff Rosen, and Timothée Chalamet. Audiences can stream Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknownwhen the film arrives on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland on 30 April.
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ABOUT SEARCHLIGHT PICTURESSearchlight Pictures is a global specialty film and television company that develops, produces, finances and acquires motion pictures and series for both worldwide theatrical and streaming releases. It has its own marketing and distribution operations, and is part of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Founded in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures, the company’s titles have grossed over $5 billion worldwide, amassing 51 Academy Awards including five Best Picture winners since 2009: “Slumdog Millionaire”, “12 Years a Slave”, “Birdman”, “The Shape of Water”, and “Nomadland”; 62 BAFTA Awards, 35 Golden Globe Awards, and 10 Grammy Awards. Searchlight recently released James Mangold’s ”A Complete Unknown” starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan; Marielle Heller’s “Nightbitch” starring Amy Adams; “A Real Pain”, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic at Sundance; andYorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness” starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe. Upcoming releases include Andrew Stanton's “In The Blink of an Eye” starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, Daveed Diggs; and Geremy Jasper's “O'Dessa” starring Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Murray Bartlett, and Regina Hall. The company includes Searchlight Television, the division which develops and produces series for streaming, network, and cable partners, and earned a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress and an additional 5 nominations for its first production “The Dropout'' from Elizabeth Meriwether, in partnership with Hulu and 20th Studios. Searchlight Television also produced the Spanish-Language limited series “La Máquina”, with Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
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