New Jersey cities transformed for the Bob Dylan film starring Timothée Chalamet

🎙 Bob Dylan's biopic is being filmed in New Jersey

🎬 A downtown area has been transformed into old NYC

🎥 Clips of young stars are shown as icons on social media

New Jersey is getting its first look at another high-profile film being shot in parts of the state – in which actor Timothée Chalamet plays music icon Bob Dylan.

“A Complete Unknown” is directed by James Mangold and stars Chalamet as a folk-rock singer and songwriter who rises to fame in 1960s New York.

Some of this vintage setting is filmed in Jersey City and Paterson – as seen in video clips posted to social media.

White Eagle Hall took to Instagram on Wednesday with several stills of how Jersey City was remodeled to resemble 1960s Greenwich Village.

Wonder Bagels has been transformed into Café Borgia, the music venue noted.

The original Café Borgia finally closed at MacDougal and Bleecker in 2001 – at the time it was the oldest café in the village after Caffe Reggio.

Other businesses along Jersey Avenue received a nostalgic makeover. Dylan moved to New York in 1961 and played in clubs before being signed to Columbia Records.

Chalamet as Bob Dylan filming in Jersey City, New Jersey (efhriam_giles via acompleteunknownnews via Instagram)

The following year, he released his self-titled debut album (and officially changed his name from Robert Zimmerman) – and the rest is history.

Mangold said it's “not really a Bob Dylan biopic,” as quoted by Variety. The filmmaker said he had a lot of support from the real Dylan in making a film about “a very specific moment” in New York's 1960s folk scene.

Filming Bob Dylan's film in New Jersey (gr8images, a complete unknown message via Instagram)

Pete Seeger and Woody Gutherie have already been big successes in this scene – and the film stars Ed Norton as Seeger.

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Mangold has previously directed a successful music biopic – 2005's Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash.

His more recent projects have included “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” “Ford v Ferrari” and “Logan.”

Some Instagram users – including girlfromjerseycity and mickmicknyc – shared video clips of Chalamet as Dylan strolling the revamped streets of New Jersey, as seen below:

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