‘A Complete Unknown’ Director James Mangold on Consulting With Bob Dylan, Adoring Pete Seeger and Why Newport ’65 Was Like ‘Thanksgiving Dinner Gone Amuck’

James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic "Like a Complete Unknown" is one of the great Oscar favorites, but can it also solve the puzzle Dylan? In fact, Mangold spent hours with the century musician above the screenplay. We asked him what he learned.

James Mangold considered contacting Joaquin Phoenix to play Johnny Cash in 'A Complete Unknown'

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line.""Walk the Line"/Twentieth Century FoxJames Mangold considered Joaquin Phoenix for Johnny Cash in "A Complete Unknown."Phoenix played Cash in Mangold's 2005 movie "Walk the Line."Mangold decided Phoenix would be too old and didn't want to service "meta-movie universe stuff," he told BI."A Complete Unknown," James Mangold's look at the life of Bob Dylan, almost gave us another taste of Joaqu…

Bob Dylan Read the Script For ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Director Reveals What He Thought | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Bob Dylan had some consultation on the new movie about his life, A Complete Unknown! The 83-year-old musician read the script for the movie over COVID and had a meeting with director and co-writer James Mangold. In a newly released interview, James opened up about his meeting with Bob and what things he thought would get push back and more. Keep reading to find out more… “COVID hit, and then I got a call from [manager] Jeff Rosen saying COVID ha…

‘A Complete Unknown’ Director James Mangold on Consulting With Bob Dylan, Adoring Pete Seeger and Why Newport ’65 Was Like ‘Thanksgiving Dinner Gone Amuck’

Something is happening here and, given the hoopla over “A Complete Unknown,” probably even Mr. Jones has an idea what it is: Bob Dylan mania. Thanks to James Mangold’s new film, America is currently experiencing a spike of collective fascination with Dylan that probably hasn’t peaked quite this high since 1965, when the events of the biopic wrap up. Thankfully, “A Complete Unknown” has turned out to be a thoughtful treatment as well as a crowd…

Films that portray the life of great celebrities are always built between documentary and fiction, and the biopic of [[LINK:TAGtag5f523132a03f7f12ced2ffa4Bob Dylan]] is no exception. A Complete Unknown (James Mangold, United States, 2024), starring Timothée Chalamet, narrates the beginning of the career of the American musician during the 1960s, from his arrival in New York as a revelation of folk to his conflicting performance with electric gui…

In Bob Dylan's biopic “A Complete Unknown”, Timothée Chalamet seduced fans and skeptics with a performance that could earn him the first Oscar. We spoke with the 29-year-old and the rest of the cast of a work also nominated for best film, director, supporting actor and actress and adapted screenplay