Cool jazz ... Miles Davis and actor Don Cheadle, who is planning a biopic of the trumpet player's life. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Sony Pictures
Henry Barnestheguardian.com, Thursday 14 November 2013 09.04 GMT
Don Cheadle's Kill The Trumpet Player, the actor's take on the "silent period" of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, will co-star Ewan McGregor and Star Trek actor Zoe Saldana.
The film is co-written by Cheadle and will be his first as director. McGregor will play a Rolling Stone journalist and Saldana will play Davis's ex-wife, Frances.
Kill the Trumpet Player will focus on "a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis, as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music", according to The Hollywood Reporter. This presumably refers to the period after the 1975 Newport Jazz Festival, when Davis – a heroin addict during the early 50s – retired from the public eye and spiralled back into drug addiction, before making a hesitant return to recording and performing.
Cheadle, who has been planning the film for a number of years and once referred to it as a "gangster story", rejected the idea that it could be called a traditional biopic at last week's American Film Market conference.
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