Don Cheadle is getting some serious talent for his directorial debut KILL THE TRUMPET PLAYER, as it was revealed that recent BIFA nominee announcer Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana will be joining the project.
KILL THE TRUMPET PLAYER centres around a few days in the life of musician MilesDavis (Cheadle) as he bursts out of his “silent” period and conspires with a Rolling Stone journalist (McGregor) to try and steal his music back. Cheadle will be directing the biopic, while newcomer Steven Baigelman wrote the script. It has also been revealed that musician Herbie Hancock will be contributing to the project.
Cheadle said he hopes to kill the normal biopic with his feature debut:
“Let’s kill that term, OK? I hope with this film we can kill the biopic. This film won’t try to give a broad overview of Davis’ life and give short shrift to this man’s story. For us as creative people, the time of his life that was most interesting was the five years when he wasn’t playing, when he was silent. What was going on in his mind? And how did he come out of it and return to music?”
Cheadle, Saldana AND McGregor? Sign us up!
Source: THR
