Timothee Chalamet Will Play Bob Dylan In 'Going Electric' Biopic

One of Hollywood's brightest young stars has been cast as Bob Dylan in an upcoming biopic about Dylan's controversial transition from folk to rock music in the mid-1960s.

Timothee Chalamet, one of the stars of Little Women (in theaters now) and 2017's academy-award winning Call Me By Your Name, will be directed by James Mangold in the film, which is tentatively titled Going Electric, reports Deadline.

Dylan was about the same age as Chalamet, 24, when he was famously booed off the Newport Folk Festival stage in 1965. The performance marked the first time in Dylan's professional career that he came out with a fully electric band, as opposed to his customary solo act consisting of vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica.

While there's some debate about what incited the Newport audience to boo (it may have been poor sound or a prior announcement that Dylan's set would be shortened), the music icon's resulting electric tour provoked hostile responses in almost every city it visited.

Dylan is famously averse to doing interviews, and has barely spoken to audiences at his own concerts for years. He does, however, have a soft spot for cinema, and is reportedly working closely with Mangold and the Going Electric producers on the film.

Last year, Dylan worked with Martin Scorcese on Netflix's Rolling Thunder Revue "documentary," which chronicled his 1975 tour of the same name and contained several deliberate and puzzling falsehoods.

In 2007, Dylan was depicted by six different actors, including Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Richard Gere, in the Golden Globe-winning film, I'm Not There.

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