According to a Collider interview in October 2020 with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, that the Bob Dylan film project was going to be put on the backburner due to the recently released COVID precautions that studios are taking. And because of that, Papamichael and director James Mangold are moving onto other projects. "I don't think it's dead," said Papamichael about the Chalamet-led biopic, "But it's a tough one to pull off in a COVID-era because it's all in small clubs with lots of extras in period costumes, so you've got lots of hair and makeup. So our next project is Indiana Jones 5 (2022), actually. Mangold's doing that."
Christian Bale and then Benedict Cumberbatch were originally cast as Pete Seeger before Edward Norton was cast.
Timothée Chalamet is now, July 2020, the same age, 24 years old, as Bob Dylan was when he shifted to electric in July 1965.
Scenes filmed to depict the 1965 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, where Bob Dylan first performed in public with an electric guitar, were filmed in the seaside resort town of Cape May, New Jersey. Minimal redress was needed, given the resort's commitment to its designation as a National Historic Landmark due to its concentration of Victorian architecture as well as other 19th and 20th century architectural motifs.