Benedict Cumberbatch to Play Pete Seeger in Bob Dylan Biopic – Fakazakamp

Benedict Cumberbatch has reportedly been forged as people icon Pete Seeger within the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown.

Director James Mangold revealed the information to Deadline on the 2023 Cannes Movie Pageant following a screening of his newest film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future.

Seeger, who died in 2014 at age 94, performed a major function in Dylan’s early musical profession within the Nineteen Sixties, serving to facilitate his report label contract and welcoming him to carry out carry out on the Newport People Pageant.

A Full Unknown stars Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, and Elle Fanning in an unspecified function. Woody Guthrie may even be portrayed within the film, although the actor forged for the function has not but been introduced. The biopic is scheduled to start manufacturing in August.

The challenge relies on Elijah Wald’s e book Dylan Goes Electrical and a script from Jay Cocks.

As beforehand reported, Mangold confirmed that Chalamet will do his personal singing within the forthcoming Searchlight Footage movie. Throughout an interview with Collider at London’s Star Wars Celebration in early April, the director was requested whether or not the actor would do his personal crooning within the biopic, as a substitute of dubbing in Dylan’s voice. Mangold replied, “In fact!”

“It’s such a tremendous time in American tradition,” Mangold mentioned when requested what drew him to the Dylan movie. “The story of a younger, 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with like two {dollars} in his pocket and changing into a worldwide sensation inside three years — first being embraced into the household of people music in New York after which, in fact, form of outrunning them at a sure level as his star rises so past perception. It’s such an attention-grabbing true story and about such an attention-grabbing second within the American scene.”