Don Cheadle to play Miles Davis in long-planned biopic

[CapitalOne]

Don Cheadle will play Miles Davis in a biopic the actor has long planned on the innovative jazz pioneer.

BiFrost Pictures told The Associated Press on Wednesday that it will finance and produce Kill the Trumpet Player, with Cheadle also making his directorial debut. Cheadle has been trying to make the film for years. Production is finally set to begin in June.

The production company said the movie will focus on when Davis temporarily retired from making music and then re-emerged in 1979. The script is written by Cheadle and Steven Baigelman.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/11/13/don-cheadle-miles-davis-biopic/

 

[Ziggiy]

I remember him talking about wanting to do this film around the time Hotel Rwanda was blowing up. It should be dope

 

[kingdarius]

cheadle in anything is a automatic watch for me

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

One of the GOAT actors playing one of the GOAT musicians.

 

[Duvali]

 

[KevCo]

Honestly, this cant go wrong...

 

[LezJepzin]

A win-win

 

[SuikodenII]

 

[Mic-Nificent]

It'll likely be a dope movie..........that virtually nobody will go see.

 

[eMDee92i]

 

[CoolazzFemale]

 

[Ziggiy]

It'll likely be a dope movie..........that virtually nobody will go see.

You never know. People went to see Ray and it earned Jamie an Oscar

 

[Michael9100]

So this is going to be mostly about Miles in the 70s?.............



No Coltrane? No Evans?.......


I'll still watch though...

 

[MrWillyWanker]

huge miles fan. i understand condensing the movie and focusing on one time period in his long career. i just think there focusing on the wrong one. id love to see one on miles first coming to new york in the 40's lookin for Bird. going to julliard then dropping out, getting addicted to heroin, those legendary jam sessions at mintons playhouse, him putting together his first quintet, meeting coltrane, etc.

 

[Danie84]

Finally