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Timothée Chalamet x Bob Dylan
𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴
𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 + 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦
𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 “Going Electric”
𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 + 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦
𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 “Going Electric”
October 10, 2018 - On a podcast, Timothée first expresses his interest in playing a musician
May 3, 2019 - while filming DUNE, Timothée stories a video with “Ballad of a Thin Man” playing. in the same week, his agent follows Bob Dylan on instagram!
October 17, 2019 - “‘I made a little playlist this morning,’ Chalamet announces to the room. He sings and dances — very Elio-in-the-town-square-like — to Bob Dylan’s ‘Tombstone Blues.’” - @EW
https://ew.com/movies/2019/10/17/saoirse-ronan-timothee-chalamet-cover-story/
https://ew.com/movies/2019/10/17/saoirse-ronan-timothee-chalamet-cover-story/
December 17, 2019 - “Little Women” Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran reveals one of the main style inspirations for Timothée’s character Laurie was young Bob Dylan. https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/timothe-chalamet-little-women-outfits-and-fashion-interview.html
January 6, 2020 - the official announcement: James Mangold reported to direct in the biopic starring Timothée, tentatively referred to as “Going Electric”. The movie includes rights to to Dylan’s music and the book “Dylan Goes Electric” by Elijah Wald. https://deadline.com/2020/01/bob-dylan-timothee-chalamet-james-mangold-going-electric-movie-newport-folk-festival-1202822609/#utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=social_bar&utm_content=top_amp&utm_id=1202822609
The film was also announced to be produced by Dylan’s longtime manager Rosen and executive produced by Dylan himself. It focuses on his 1965 controversial transition of embracing rock ‘n’ roll and was slated to begin filming in June 2020.
Mangold is a longtime Bob Dylan fan & already directed a film about an iconic musician with 2005’s Johnny Cash-June Carter “Walk the Line”. For “Going Electric”, he rewrote a script written by Jay Cocks
Prior to the January 2020 news, Timothée had already begun lessons to familiarize himself with both acoustic and electric guitar.
“He’s really one of the great actors of his generation, and I think has a tremendous angle on this part.”
-Director James Mangold
-Director James Mangold
January 7, 2020 - Timmy is spotted in New York reading Dylan’s experimental prose poetry book “Tarantula” & three weeks later, stories a passage from it!
February 9, 2020 - Mangold & Chalamet together at the Oscars https://twitter.com/mang0ld/status/1227279912773373959
February 29, 2020 - tweet including Bob Dylan’s memoir “Chronicles, Volume One” https://twitter.com/realchalamet/status/1233757752327102467
February 29, 2020 - “look, you know i’m trying to be like Bob Dylan”
April 12, 2020 - @RealChalamet tweets lyrics to “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” & James Mangold replies with the next line https://twitter.com/realchalamet/status/1249239751514714113
Timothée escapes to Woodstock, NY in Summer 2020 to a little cabin that, upon arrival, he discovers has a wall devoted to Dylan—to the albums he'd recorded in the run-up to his timeout in Woodstock in the late '60s. “The universe offered signs if you nudged it toward coherence.”
July 23, 2020 - After returning back to the city, Timothée is spotted heading to a guitar lesson
August 3, 2020 - @RealChalamet posts three tweets about “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding” and as a result, Bob Dylan’s name trends on Twitter https://twitter.com/realchalamet/status/1291852850704908288
September 12, 2020 - In a conversation with Stevie Wonder, the two briefly mention Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” https://oddamagazine.com/project/the-wonders-in-conversation-with-timothee-chalamet/
October 15, 2020 - GQ details on his July “Woodstock Dylanalia” — “Dylan was top of mind and Timothée was helplessly obsessed. He quoted him generously, fixated on both the art and the persona, marveled at the way the artist could make such an impact...” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/timothee-chalamet-november-2020-cover-profile/amp
His cover story also revealed that in addition to guitar, he’d been practicing harmonica. While in the city, he spent time in Greenwich Village searching out old Dylan addresses, “running from site to site with notes he kept while reading Dylan’s memoir.”
GQ writes in early 2019 Timmy has dinner with Joel Coen and, knowing he’s a fan, grills him on Dylan. Coen notes the truly incredible thing about him is “not so much the quality, which was obvious, but the quantity, one groundbreaking album after another, in those early years.” https://twitter.com/timhalchalz/status/1317499722190422017
The movie’s DP Phedon Papamichael unfortunately confirms in October that the film is delayed indefinitely due to the pandemic: “it’s a tough one to pull off in a COVID-era because it’s all in small clubs with lots of extras in period costumes, lots of hair and makeup...”
November 10, 2020 - Timothée stories a Zoom guitar lesson, practicing “When the Ship Comes In”
November 18, 2020 - While playing “Positively 4th Street” Timmy stories himself visiting Bob Dylan’s first NYC apartment!
December 3, 2020 - Timothée posts a photo playing the harmonica taken sometime in August 2020!
December 27, 2020 - In a birthday message to Timothée, his close friend & musician Giullian shares a picture of them playing guitar together
Mangold continues to tweet Bob Dylan links, leading fans to keep faith in the project!
i did this thread for my own fun but i hope it was interesting to read!! when the time is right, this film will finally happen...
