Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, and Zoe Saldana are set to star in BiFrost Pictures? Kill the Trumpet Player, the story of a few dangerous days in the life of Miles Davis (Cheadle), the virtuoso, fighter and genius, as he bursts out of his silent period and conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (McGregor) to steal back his music.
Cheadle will also make his feature directorial debut from a script co-written with Steven Baigelman.
BiFrost principal Daniel Wagner commented, ?Don is one of our generation?s greatest actors, and this is the role he was born to play. His take on the conventional biopic of one of music?s most celebrated icons is cinematic ‘jazz’ and too unique to resist. It fits naturally with BiFrost?s commitment to support talent and their passion projects, so we are thrilled to work with Don on his feature directorial debut.?
Wagner is financing and will produce the project along with Robert Ogden Barnum, Cheadle and Lenore Zerman for their Crescendo Productions banner, Darryl Porter, and Vince Wilburn Jr. Executive producers are Pamela Hirsch, Cheryl Davis, Erin Davis, Cassian Elwes and Baigelman. Herbie Hancock, a legend in his own right and close collaborator of Davis, will participate in the project as well.
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