Like a Rolling Stone: Timothée Chalamet to play Bob Dylan in singer's biopic
Dylan will executive produce the film, directed by James Mangold.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is based on the book 'Dylan Goes Electric' by Elijah Wald.
The Fox Searchlight feature will chart the Nobel Prize winner's switch from folk to rock music.
Dylan is also attached to executive produce the project with Mangold. Jay Cocks penned the screenplay.
Fox has secured the music rights as well.
Dylan's longtime manager Jeff Rosen will produce with Mangold, Veritas Entertainment Group's Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer and Peter Jaysen, as well as Automatik's Fred Berger and The Picture Company's Alex Heineman. Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Andrew Rona will exec produce.
This will be another biopic for Mangold after racing drama 'Ford v Ferrari'.
Chalamet's latest release was Greta Gerwig's 'Little Women'. The actor will next be seen in Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune' remake and 'The French Dispatch', directed by Wes Anderson.
In 2007's 'I'm Not There', six actors - Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger and Ben Whishaw - famously depicted different facets of Dylan's public personas.
There are countless reasons to celebrate Bob Dylan. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941, the American singer-songwriter, artist and writer became the first musician to win the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
However, his win was not devoid of controversy, first with many questioning his selection, and then the singer-songwriter skipping the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm in December. However, in his speech, read out by the US Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji at the event, he wrote, "If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I'd have about the same odds as standing on the moon."
He later collected his award at a private ceremony in Stockholm.
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