For the first time, Bob Dylan has publicly acknowledged his upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, about his early years in New York, in which Timothée Chalamet plays the young folk music legend.

“There’s a film coming out about me called A Complete Unknown (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet plays the main role. Timmy is a brilliant actor, so I’m sure he’ll be as believable as I am. Or a younger me. Or another me,” Dylan wrote on X, a platform he recently joined.

He continued: “The film is adapted from Elijah Wald’s ‘Dylan Goes Electric’ – a book published in 2015. It’s a fantastic retelling of the events of the early 1960s that led to the Newport fiasco. “After you see the film, read the book.”

Chalamet responded the next day, writing on X: “Floored. I’m so grateful. Thanks, Bob.”

Dylan’s social media post suggested that he had not yet seen A Complete Unknown, which garnered positive initial reactions from journalists and film influencers. However, Dylan had some involvement in the making of the film, as director James Mangold told Rolling Stone that he sat down with Dylan several times and that the 83-year-old singer made notes on the script. His manager Jeff Rosen is also credited as a producer on the film.

A Complete Unknown, out December 25th, follows a young Dylan as he arrives in New York in the early 1960s. The film follows the music legend as he becomes a fixture in the Greenwich Village folk scene and befriends the likes of Joan Baez (played by Monica Barbaro) and Pete Seeger (Edward Norton). The film ends after Dylan straps on an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, plays “Like a Rolling Stone,” and revolutionizes the genre.

“A Complete Unknown” was written by Mangold and Jay Cocks and, as Dylan mentioned, is based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book “Dylan Goes Electric!”. The rest of the cast includes Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo (a fictional character based on Dylan’s then girlfriend Suze Rotolo), Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, PJ Byrne as Harold Leventhal, Scoot McNairy as Woody Guthrie, Dan Fogler as Albert Grossman and Will Harrison among others Bob Neuwirth. The film is produced by Fred Berger, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, Bob Bookman, Alan Gasmer, Rosen, Chalamet and Mangold.