While the project has been in the works for quite some time, it looks like Don Cheadle and his team are ready to finally make a move on the Miles Davis biopic. Penning the script alongside Steven Baigelman, Cheadle has plans of playing the part of Davis as well as directing the entirety of the film. Titled Kill The Trumpet Player, the film isn’t exactly a biopic. At least that is what Cheadle claims. Read what he has to say about the film here:
It’s not a biopic, per se. It’s a gangster pic. It’s a movie that Miles Davis would have wanted to star in. Without throwing history away, we’re trying to shuffle it and make it more cubist. The bulk of it takes place in ’79, in a period where he actually wasn’t playing. But we traverse a lot of it his life, but it’s not a cradle to grave story…
Along with Cheadle, the cast will include Ewan McGregor and Zoë Saldana. There were also reports that Herbie Hancock would be scoring the film, but that has yet to be determined. [via]
I hope this happens. I won’t hold my breath tho.