Bob Dylan insisted on putting one totally made-up fact into biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’: “He’s such a troublemaker”

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Bob Dylan insisted on inserting a made-up fact into the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown. The film charts Dylan’s controversial switch from acoustic to electric guitar in the mid-’60s and will be released in US cinemas on December 25, with a UK release to follow on January 17.

Dylan served as an executive producer on the film, which is an adaptation of Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties.Several people involved in the film, including director James Mangold, as well as actors Timothée Chalamet (Dylan), Edward Norton (Pete Seeger) and Elle Fanning (Sylvie Russo, a fictionalised version of Dylan’s first New York girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, who died in 2011), spoke to Rolling Stone about how the film came together.Dylan had several meetings with Mangold in Los Angeles and went through the screenplay, line by line. “Jim has an annotated Bob script lying around somewhere,” Chalamet told the outlet. “I’ll beg him to get my hands on it.

He’ll never give it to me.”“I felt like Bob just wanted to know what I was up to,” Mangold said. “ ‘Who is this guy? Is he a shithead?

Does he get it?’ — I think the normal questions anyone asks when they’re throwing themselves in league with someone.”Dylan personally added a line to the script for a scene where Chalamet and Fanning argue.