In 1961, an unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York City with his guitar. He forms relationships with musical icons in Greenwich Village, rising rapidly, culminating in a groundbreaking performance that resonates around the world. According to an October 2020 interview with Collider with cinematographer Fedon Papamichael, the recently announced COVID precautions that studios were taking continued to put the Bob Dylan film project on hold; as a result, Papamichael and director James Mangold would move on to other projects. "I don’t think it’s dead," said Papamichael of the Chalamet-led biopic: ”But it’s hard to pull it off in the COVID era because it’s all set in small clubs with a lot of extras in period costumes, so you’ve got a lot of hair and makeup. So our next project is ’Indiana Jones 5’ (2022), actually. Mangold is doing that.”