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\t\t<\/p>\n Bob Dylan<\/strong><\/a> had some consultation on the new movie about his life, A Complete Unknown<\/strong><\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n The 83-year-old musician read the script for the movie over COVID and had a meeting with director and co-writer James Mangold<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In a newly released interview, James<\/strong> opened up about his meeting with Bob<\/strong> and what things he thought would get push back and more.<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cCOVID hit, and then I got a call from [manager] Jeff Rosen<\/strong> saying COVID had canceled Bob<\/strong>\u2019s tour. Given he didn\u2019t have anything to do at the moment, [Dylan<\/strong>] said, \u2018Let me read this script that\u2019s got you guys worried.\u2019 And then he read it, and he liked it, and that changed everything,\u201d James<\/strong> told Variety<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThat then instigated the series of meetings with myself and Bob<\/strong>, and Bob<\/strong> read the movie you saw. I didn\u2019t think he had an issue with how he was being depicted, because I think that he saw it as essentially: I didn\u2019t have an agenda, and I wasn\u2019t picking a side. From what I sense being with him, that\u2019s the most important thing \u2014 that there\u2019s a neutrality that lets everyone figure out what they think from the circumstances that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n James<\/strong> added that Bob<\/strong> is the reason why the movie starts where it does.<\/p>\n \u201cIt starts with suffocating and then running, and rebirthing or building anew. And any casual observer of Bob Dylan<\/strong>\u2019s life can see that that has been something that\u2019s happened more than once, not even in just the period that I chose to depict in this film,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that\u2019s very much the reason, coming from that talk with Bob<\/strong>, that the movie opens with him at the station, hitchhiking into New York, and ends with him on the back of a motorcycle, riding away. The arrival at the opening is a departure from the world he left, and the departure at the end is an arrival to a new world and, in a way, a new period of his life. That to me was really clear, that cyclical, almost musical-ballad-like pattern in his life.\u201d<\/p>\n If you missed it, earlier this month Bob <\/strong>spoke out about Timothee Chalamet<\/strong> portraying him <\/a>in the movie.<\/p>\n At the NYC premiere of A Complete Unknown<\/em>, Timothee<\/strong> recreated a Bob Dylan<\/strong> look<\/a> from over 20 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n