According to The Huffington Post, 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.
Universal and Imagine Entertainment have greenlit the long-gestating James Brown biopic after tapping “42″ star Chadwick Boseman to play the legendary artist known as the “godfather of soul.” The Help” director Tate Taylor is helming the pic with Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins are producing along with Mick Jagger and Victoria Pearman under their Jagged Films banner. Trish Hofmann and Peter Afterman will exec produce.
Jez and John Henry Butterworth penned the script.
The movie follows Brown’s rise from extreme poverty in Georgia to becoming a world famous and highly influential R&B musician with a string of hits in the 1960s and ’70s including “Please, Please, Please,” “I Got You (I Feel Good),” “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” and many others. Brown died in 2006 at age 73.
Finally, after much talk and anticipation, TLC’s biopic “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story” has a release month!
The film will air on the network in October; and we have a first teaser right here. Do you think that Keke Palmer, Lil’ Mama and Drew Sidora pull off Chilli, Left Eye and T-Boz? Check out this first look two-minute teaser to see if the ladies morph into the best-selling female group ever!
Will you watch?