The movie in the works about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, is not a bio-pic.
Director James Mangold, appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, says, “The reason Bob has been so supportive of us making it is [because] the best true-life movies are never cradle to grave, but they’re about a very specific moment in someone’s life.”
In this case, it's about his coming to New York in the early '60s and befriending the likes of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, and “within a year” landing a record deal with Columbia.
And, Mangold adds that Dylan has "annotated" the script.
“I’ve spent several, wonderfully charming, days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him... He loves movies. The first time I sat down with Bob, one of the first things he said to me was, ‘I love Cop Land'," the 1997 film Mangold wrote and directed.
There is still no release date for A Complete Unknown.
Speaking of Dylan in the '60s, today, July 6th, is the 60th anniversary of Dylan attending at a voter registration rally in Greenwood, Mississippi. He performed “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” part of which was filmed and included in D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 Dylan film, Don't Look Back.
A portion of the performance is posted today on Dylan's Instagram page.