Top Gun: Maverick actress Monica Barbaro is in final talks to portray Joan Baez in a forthcoming Bob Dylan biopic, The Hollywood Reporter reports and Searchlight Pictures representatives confirmed to Pitchfork. The film, directed and co-written by James Mangold, will star Timothée Chalamet as Dylan.
Earlier this month, Mangold said that Chalamet will do his own singing for the movie, which is set to begin production in New York this summer. Currently titled A Complete Unknown, the film will center around Dylan’s groundbreaking electric set at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
James Mangold is co-producing the Searchlight Pictures film and he is co-writing it with Jay Cocks. Bob Dylan is among the film’s executive producers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
