A Complete Unknown is James Mangold’s 2024 biographical drama starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan during his controversial switch to electric. Co-written by Mangold and Jay Cocks and based on Elijah Wald’s 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!, the film chronicles the controversy surrounding Dylan’s move to electrically amplified instrumentation. Chalamet also serves as producer, with Edward Norton, Elle Fanning and Monica Barbaro co-starring. The film opened in theaters in December 2024.
SCANable provided 3D scanning for the production, capturing cast body scans, environments, backgrounds and props as photogrammetry and point-cloud data to support the film’s visual effects and camera tracking work.