Exclusive: Searchlight Pictures has closed a deal with Ford V Ferrari helmer James Mangold to direct Going Electric.
Timothee Chalamet is attached to play Bob Dylan during the period when he was poised to become folk music’s most seminal figure.
When Dylan instead embraced rock n roll and traded his acoustic guitar for an amp and an electric guitar, it created a huge outcry.
And it cemented the status of rock music.
Dylan is working actively with Searchlight and Mangold on the film.Negotiations are underway with Chalamet, who has gotten strong reviews for Little Women, and who next will make his London stage debut opposite Eileen Atkins in 4,000 Miles, the Old Vic production of Amy Herzog’s Pulitzer-nominated drama.
The play bows April 16 and closes May 23rd.
It is expected he will do Going Electric after that.
Chalamet this year has the Wes Anderson-directed The French Dispatch
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