Don Cheadle takes the directors chair and Actors chair in the long awaited biopic Miles Ahead based on the life story of ecentric Jazz trumpeter, Miles Davis.
“Ten years later, Miles Ahead is ready to open in theaters, and Cheadle not only stars as the raspy-voiced trumpet master, he also made his directorial debut. The film premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival and will open in theaters on April 1. Rather than a conventional cradle-to-grave music biopic, Cheadle built the narrative around Davis in 1979, a period of artistic paralysis. Ewan McGregor plays a persistent journalist who intrudes on Davis’s privacy, but becomes his reluctant partner in crime when they have to retrieve a missing tape of valuable session music. Like Davis’s music, their adventure knows no boundaries, and the film flirts with the surreal. In flashbacks, Davis courts and obsesses over dancer Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi), and their romance has a major impact on his music.”
Looks like a good one!
