"It's a very different story, but one that does overlap," Mangold says of parallels between his two movies.James Mangold didn't anticipate that he'd be going down, down, down into a burning ring of fire for a second time in his life.

A Complete Unknown director James Mangold tells IndieWire about recording songs live, working with Timothee Chalament, more for his Bob Dylan biopic.

Some have even said that “Like a Rolling Stone” might even be about Dylan himself, and his uneasy relationship with fame (on “Idiot Wind”, on 1975’s Blood on the Tracks LP, he sings, “You’ll find out when you reach the top,

Timothée Chalamet’s lauded transformation into rock icon Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown” was so complete, it went all the way down to his cuticles. The “Dune 2” actor, 28, ended rampant speculation about whether the surprisingly long fingernails he has in the new biopic (out Dec. 25) are actually his own during an interview with Fandango.

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He respects the reclusive legacy of Bob Dylan while also delivering on one heck of a show that will perhaps inspire a newfound interest in the folk genre and how Dylan came in “like a rolling stone” to shake the whole scene up by going electric.

Big shoes (and tight pants) to fill. Val Kilmer dutifully performed as Morrison in director Oliver Stone’s account of the singer’s tragic arc, from the sandy beaches of Venice, Calif., to his death in a Paris apartment at the age of 27.

Dylan, a Nobel Prize winning poet, songwriter and performer, also ranks among the most enigmatic. Mangold chronicles Dylan’s Greenwich Village roots, performing in basement coffee houses, recording, forming a romantic and professional partnership with folk singer activist Joan Baez.

Mangold explains how Timothée Chalamet made Bob Dylan his own, from pandemic guitar practice to socially awkward extreme honesty.

Please don’t stereotype Timothée Chalamet. Just because he’s a serious actor doesn’t mean he’s an insane person. In a December 13 THR interview with the main cast of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown,

To become Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” Timothée Chalamet spent years practicing guitar and was even outfitted with cheek plumpers and nostril expanders.