After many production delays, the film about Bob Dylan has begun filming, with the main role played by actor Timothée Chalamet.

Dressed in a light brown jacket and baseball cap, Timothée Chalamet was filming A Completely Unknown – a film chronicling the beginning of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan ‘s career – in New York over the weekend, creating a wave of excitement and no shortage of funny stories in the hearts of fans.

Timothée Chalamet transforms into Bob Dylan

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“He looks like he’s going to Camp Rock ,” one X user quipped, referring to the Disney movie about a musical summer camp.

Writer Marissa R.Moss wrote: “This is not Bob Dylan.” Others joked that Timothée Chalamet looked like Fievel, the mouse from the animated film An American Tail.

After first being announced in 2020, production on A Complete Unknown has experienced multiple delays, from the pandemic to the American Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) strike. However, the film still received full support from Bob Dylan himself when the singer gave director James Mangold detailed notes about the script.

Mangold said last year: “I spent a few wonderful days with Bob Dylan, just talking to him privately. Dylan loves movies.”

Mangold also added he wasn’t really making a biopic about Bob Dylan but instead focused more on one moment in the singer’s life.

“It’s a composite work about the start-up period, the early 1960s in New York. A 17-year-old boy with $16 in his pocket hitchhiked to New York to meet singer Woody Guthrie who was in the hospital “, Mangold revealed.

Timothée Chalamet and director James Mangold on the set of A Completely Unknown

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Timothée Chalamet will sing himself in the film and has hired vocal and dialect coaches to practice his voice, similar to Austin Butler in the movie Elvis .

Bob Dylan is notoriously elusive. The life and career of the famous singer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature is the subject of many films. I’m Not There in 2007, directed by Todd Haynes, cast 6 different actors to play Bob Dylan. Martin Scorsese also made a music film in 2019 called Rolling Thunder Revue , chronicling Bob Dylan’s 1975 tour of the same name.

A Completely Unknown is based on the script by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, with performances by Timothée Chalamet (Bob Dylan), Monica Barbaro (Joan Baez), Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo), Edward Norton (Pete Seeger)… The film has not yet been released. set release date.