Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ to be released on Christmas Day – Duluth News Tribune

DULUTH — A new film about Bob Dylan's meteoric rise will be released in theaters nationwide on Dec. 25, Searchlight Pictures announced Tuesday. There was previously no firm release date for the upcoming film.

In A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet plays Bob Dylan in his early twenties. The story focuses on Dylan's rapid rise from a Greenwich Village folk musician in the early 1960s to an icon who shocked the music world when he “went electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Although the film is not expected to include scenes from Dylan's youth in Northland or his college years in Minneapolis, Chalamet visited Hibbing High School in January while preparing to portray the future Nobel Prize winner, who graduated there in 1959.

Dylan himself backed the project, co-writing the script and providing rare early recordings so Chalamet could imitate his distinctive singing voice. A trailer released last month gave fans their first chance to hear the actor imitate Dylan's voice.

Arts and entertainment reporter Jay Gabler joined the Duluth News Tribune in 2022. Previously, he worked for eight years as a digital producer at The Current (Minnesota Public Radio), four years as a theater critic at the Minneapolis alternative weekly City Pages, and six years as arts editor at the Twin Cities Daily Planet. He is co-founder of the pop culture and creative writing blog The Tangential and a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance. Reach him at [email protected] or 218-279-5536.