Timothee Chalamet has landed his next big role. The young actor has been cast as Bob Dylan in the film, Going Electric, set to be directed by James Mangold.
Chalamet will play a young Bob Dylan during the period when he was poised to become folk music’s most seminal figure. Dylan would go on to embrace rock n roll and traded his acoustic guitar for an amp and an electric guitar and became one of the most influential people in music in the process. Searchlight Pictures is behind the film with working actively with them and Mangold on the project.
Negotiations are still underway with Chalamet but it’s said to pretty much be a done deal for him to take the role. The young actor has easily become one of the best and most sought after actors of his generation after his Oscar-nominated turn in Call Me By Your Name and a slew of other noteworthy performances in films such as Lady Bird & Beautiful Boy. Chalamet is currently in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, which received high critical praise and is doing solid business at the box office. Up next is his London stage debut opposite Eileen Atkins in 4,000 Miles, the Old Vic production of Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer-nominated drama. The play bows April 16 and closes May 23rd. It is expected he will do Going Electric after that. On the film side, Chalamet has the Wes Anderson-directed The French Dispatch coming from Fox Searchlight this year, though no release date has yet been firmed. He closes the year starring in the Denis Villeneuve-directed adaptation of the seminal sci-fi Frank Herbert novel Dune, which Warner Bros and Legendary release December 18.
Director James Mangold is no stranger to making films about music icons. The director helmed Johnny Cash-June Carter film Walk The Line which was nominated for five Academy Awards. Mangold currently has Ford v Ferrari in release which just crossed $200 million at the worldwide box office, over $100 million of that coming from domestic grosses.
