Will the movie on Bob Dylan has a sequel? These clues say yes
“A full Unknown”, the Bob Dylan’s rise film, will he have a sequel? Soon to say it. But a series of clues Disseminated here and there, between scenes present within the film and declarations of the protagonists, starting with Timothée Chalamet, suggest that the hypothesis is not so remote. Quite the opposite: It is highly likely that the film on the genealogy of the Dylan phenomenon, from the artist’s arrival in New York in 1961 to the legendary performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, can follow (at least) a second filmand that the latter is already in the pipeline, also considering the encouraging – and extraordinary – success of “A Complete Unknown”, among the
74.1 million dollars already collected in the Box Office A few days after the release of the film all over the world and the eight nominations just conquered to the Oscar awards, including those as “Best Film”, “Best direction”, “Best leading actor” for Timothée Chalamet, “Best Supporting Actor” For Edward Norton-Peta Seeger and “Best Supporting Actress” for Monica Barbaro-Joan Baez. But let’s go in order.
The main start on the operation entered the director James Mangold at the end of “A Complete Unknown”. Who has not yet seen the film, will forgive us for the spoiler. A close-up of Timothée-Dylan as he darted on his motorbike, via da NEWPORT, Rhode Island, towards new horizons. Then a bang. The allusion will sound very clear, to the Dylaniati: the roar that is heard before the “A Complete Unknown” tail titles is that of the legendary motorcycle accident of the summer of 1966 who changed the life of Duluth’s bard forever The event is one of the most enigmatic of the career of the American singer -songwriter, always wrapped in a very dense veil of mystery: he has fascinated biographers and writers, who in the decades have tried to shed light on the story, seeking testimonies, clues, evidence.
The Holy Dylanian Scriptures say that the.July 29, 1966after a summit with the manager Albert Grossman, who pushed that following the European tour his client agreed to make sixty concerts between the USA and Europe (as well as create a special for the US television station ABC – plus the Macmillan Publishers was impatient to receive the definitive drafts of the novel-poem “Tarantula”), Dylan fell from his Triumph Tiger T100 near Woodstock. In the fall he reported the fracture of a cervical vertebra. The artist disappeared from the scenes and consequently multiplied voices and metropolitan legends of all kinds on the episode: There were those who claimed that he was dead, who hypothesized that in the fall he had remained paralyzed or disfigured and who instead believed that Dylan was a reality locked in a clinic to detoxify and that the history of the accident had been mounted of art. He returned to public almost two years later, in January 1968, and left from that moment he devoted himself to a real demolition of his public figure.
A mystical experience that anticipated the conversion from Judaism to Christianity in 1978, the one that then inspired the albums of the so -called “Christian trilogy”, “Slow Train Coming”, “Saved” and “Shot of Love”? Attempted suicide? Or an unfortunate slide on a splash of oil? Maybe. Decades after the fact, in his memories “Chronicles Vol. 1” of 2004 the future Nobel Prize to Literature would have said: «I had had a motorcycle accident and I hurt myself, but after I was healed. The truth was that I wanted to escape from the race to success».
And moreover three years earlier, in 2001, already the biographer Howard Sournes in his “Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan” had pointed out that no ambulance had been called on the accident scene on 29 July 1966 and as Dylan had not been hospitalized in any hospital, coming to the conclusion that.The accident offered to the voice of “Blowin ‘in the Wind” the opportunity to escape from the pressures that afflicted him at that time. Already in the second half of “A Complete Unknown”, after all, Timothée-Bob begins to manifest signs of impatience towards success and popularity. In short, material for the script of an ad hoc film there is something. And the fact that “A Complete Unknown” ends precisely with allusion to the accident suggests that production wanted to find An expedient not to preclude in any way the possibility of riding the eventual – and announced, given the hype around the project – success of the biopic.
And just Timothée Chalamet fueled the voices on the sequel. He did so during a recent interview granted to the microphones of the podcast “The Human Serviette” by the Canadian journalist and comedian Nardwuar: “The film covers the period from 1961 to 1965, the first part. We could do the second and third part». You read that right: second and third part. Will it therefore mean that after “A Complete Unknown” two other films on Bob Dylan’s life will come out, which will make up a real trilogy? The words are those of Chalamet: «It depends on how people react. The film ends in 1965, but he had a motorcycle accident and needed a break». The actor is 29 years old, four more than Dylan’s at the time of the accident. For the third film, however, another face would be needed, considering that when converting to Christianity the singer -songwriter was 37 years old. Unless the third and last part of the trilogy does not arrive in fifteen or twenty years.
