Edward Norton has been tapped to play the function of veteran people singer Pete Seeger within the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Full Unknown.
Initially, the function of Seeger was meant to be performed by Benedict Cumberbatch, who based on a Deadline Hollywood report, needed to drop out of the mission over scheduling conflicts. In his stead, Norton will now be part of the forged to play the people musician.
The movie – which has lengthy been within the works – will star Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan and Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, with James Mangold directing. The movie, which reportedly begins manufacturing in March, will concentrate on Dylan’s controversial resolution in 1965 to embrace the electrical guitar, alienating a lot of his authentic followers, fairly than chronicling Dylan’s life and profession.
Pete Seeger performed an important function in Dylan’s profession, being an early supporter of the enduring musician and being the person accountable for inviting Dylan to carry out his first-ever electrical set on the Newport Folks Pageant.
Timothée Chalamet has been confirmed to carry out his personal singing in A Full Unknown, with Bob Dylan serving as an government producer. In preparation for his function within the upcoming biopic, Dylan’s longtime supervisor Jeff Rosen, who can even be serving as a producer on the movie, gave Chalamet entry to a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Dylan songs which have been recorded between 1959 and 1964.
The mission was introduced in 2020, earlier than being delayed indefinitely later that 12 months with no launch timeframe shared. Filming was anticipated to start in August this 12 months however was delayed once more by the continued Hollywood strikes. Now, manufacturing is allegedly slated to start early subsequent 12 months.
Dylan additionally “personally annotated” Chalamet’s script and spent a number of days with Mangold discussing the movie.