Timothée Chalamet has prompt making a “musical cinematic universe” together with his buddy and Dune: Half Two co-star, Austin Butler, joking that Butler’s Elvis Presley might make an look in his upcoming Bob Dylan biopic, A Full Unknown.
The feedback got here in a brand new interview with the 2 actors by NME, wherein Chalamet stated that he’s been “selecting Austin’s mind nonstop” to study extra concerning the actor’s notoriously in-depth course of. For his half, Butler stated “It’s simply so cool to get to debate course of and discuss by means of issues. I can’t await that movie. I want I may very well be on set day by day, and simply watch the magic occur.”
Chalamet then jumped in, saying “I want you had been in it” to Butler. “There’s an Elvis character within the Johnny Money biopic [Walk the Line],” he continued. “I used to be kinda wishing we might create a musical cinematic universe.”
Chalamet additionally mentioned how Dylan admired Elvis, which might make the cameo extra acceptable. At a later level within the interview, he reiterated that he “needs” the cinematic Presley-Dylan crossover might occur, saying it “could be superb.” As for Butler, he joked that possibly he might simply be on set in a crew capability, “simply serving sandwiches” or one thing.
In different parts of their new dialog with NME, the actors mentioned their favourite biopics, what albums they’ve been listening to, the time Butler met Paul McCartney, and extra. Watch the interview under.
A Full Unknown will see Chalamet painting Dylan from the interval between his leaving Minnesota to fulfill Woody Guthrie by means of his notorious efficiency on the 1965 Newport People Competition. Directed by James Mangold — who bought Dylan’s private annotations for the script — the movie may also characteristic Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, in addition to Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Elle Fanning as Dylan’s early ’60s love curiosity, Sylvie Russo.
Butler’s Elvis was directed by Baz Luhrmann and arrived in 2022, incomes Butler an Academy Award nomination for Finest Actor and probably altering his voice perpetually.
