A Complete Unknown trailer: Timothee Chalamet meets Johnny Cash in Bob Dylan film

The first full trailer of A Complete Unknown is here. The Bob Dylan biopic stars Timothee Chalamet in the lead role. It releases in cinemas this Christmas.

In Short

• Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown
• The film explores Dylan's rise in the 60s music scene
• Directed by James Mangold, it releases on Christmas Day

The first full trailer of Timothee Chalamet-starrer A Complete Unknown is here. The Bob Dylan biopic will throw spotlight on the rise of the Pultizer Prize-winning artiste who revolutionised modern folk-rock music scene in the 60s.

In the two-minute promo, we see Chalamet's version of Dylan battling his rising fame, embracing celebrityhood, all the while managing his personal relationships.

Watch the trailer of A Complete Unknown here:

The trailer also features a surprise cameo by iconic country singer Johnny Cash, played here by Boyd Holbrook. There are also multiple sequences where we see a glimpse of his companionship with renowned singer Joan Baez.

Excited fans rushed to flood the comment box with positive reactions, with one user writing, "Johnny Cash just got dropped like Einstein in the Oppenheimer trailer." Another wrote, "Perfect time to release a Dylan movie. While he's alive and will to help produce it. This will be phenomenal." "As a Bob Dylan obsessive, I'm telling you right now that Timothee NAILED this. Can't wait (sic)," read yet another comment.

The official synopsis of the film reads, "Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965."

Directed by James Mangold, A Complete Unknown releases in cinemas on December 25.