Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ lands release date

A Complete Unknown, the upcoming biopic based on Bob Dylan, has received its release date – read on to find out when it hits cinemas.

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According to a post on X (formerly Twitter), the James Mangold film starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan is due to hit cinemas worldwide on Christmas Day (December 25) in the United States.

Digital Spy reports that A Complete Unknown will hit cinemas across the UK on January 17.

A glimpse of the future. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, a film by James Mangold, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, coming only to theaters December 25th. #ACompleteUnknown pic.twitter.com/zjcX4t7YHQ

— Searchlight Pictures (@searchlightpics) August 6, 2024

The film’s release date comes after its first trailer arrived in July.  A Complete Unknown also stars Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz and Scoot McNairy. Producers are Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer and Jeff Rosen.

A synopsis reads: “Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.” 

The biopic is set to explore Dylan’s transition to using the electric guitar in the ’60s, his rise to fame, and his subsequent achievement of icon status in the folk-rock music industry.

It was confirmed by director James Mangold last year that Chalamet would sing in A Complete Unknown, with the actor having showcased his vocal abilities in the Christmas musical movie Wonka.

Speaking to Collider at the time, Mangold (Walk The Line and Girl, Interrupted) said: “It’s such an amazing time in American culture, and the story of Bob’s – a young, 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with two dollars in his pocket and becoming a worldwide sensation within three years.”

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