In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost his musical evolution.
After the events shown in A Complete Unknown, Johnny Cash continued his successful musical career and remained friends with Bob Dylan until his death.
The Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a remarkable telling of the rise to fame of the legendary Bob Dylan but like all movies based on real life, liberties were taken to fit the story into one two-hour and 20-minute capsule.
In James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown, we get a cautious and reverent story of a musician who has always sought to transcend the limits imposed upon him.
There isn't anyone like Johnny Cash. No one who could command a honky tonk stage as well as one in the middle of a prison. No one who could be married to a star like June Carter and still be called the Man in Black.
Notes: Jamal Woolard starred as Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.) in this biopic. After rising to the top of the rap music world, Biggie was shot to death at age 24 in 1997. Angela Bassett, Derek Luke and Anthony Mackie also starred in the film. The soundtrack reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200.
Oscar-nominated director James Mangold directs Timothée Chalamet as the Nobel-Prize winning Musician Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown'. Starring Chalamet with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo,
The Timothee Chalamet-starring A Complete Unknown isn’t trying to upend the genre, but it doesn’t have to, argued its director James Mangold.
Dylan’s voice divides listeners. Some find it ‘mesmeric’ and others have likened it to that of ‘a dog with his leg caught in barbed wire’.
The actors who play Joan Baez and Johnny Cash tell IndieWire how they tuned up their singing and guitar-playing skills — and, in Holbrook's case, the secret to playing a good, old-fashioned drunk.
In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we discuss the performances of Timothée Chalamet and the rest of the cast in A Complete Unknown, look forward at the Springsteen and Beatles movies, and discuss what might be next, with Andy Greene joining host Brian Hiatt.
A Complete Unknown also grossed around $3 million from two overseas markets, with the U.K. leading the way. Its global haul now stands at $60 million. Directed by James Mangold, the movie was produced on a reported budget of around $70 million,