{"id":69340,"date":"2014-07-07T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T14:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2014\/07\/07\/first-look-at-don-cheadle-as-miles-davis-in-miles-ahead\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T04:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T04:01:37","slug":"first-look-at-don-cheadle-as-miles-davis-in-miles-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/first-look-at-don-cheadle-as-miles-davis-in-miles-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look At Don Cheadle As Miles Davis In ‘Miles Ahead’"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Look At Don Cheadle As Miles Davis<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

July 7, 2014<\/p>\n

Source: EW<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Don<\/a>Entertainment Weekly<\/a>\u00a0has posted the first photo of Don Cheadle<\/strong> as Jazz legend Miles Davis<\/strong> for the biopic Miles Ahead<\/strong>, which is almost of the end of his Indiegogo campaign<\/a> of reaching $325,000.<\/p>\n

Written by Steve Baigelman<\/strong> and Cheadle, \u2018Miles Ahead\u2019<\/strong> tracks a few dangerous days in Davis\u2019 life as he emerged from a silent period to conspire with Rolling Stone writer Dave Brill (played by Ewan McGregor<\/strong>) to steal back his music.<\/p>\n

Also included in the film are Emayatzy Corinealdi<\/strong> as Frances Taylor, Miles Davis’\u00a0first wife; and Short Term 12’s Keith Stanfield<\/strong> as Junior, a trumpet player who was involved in the theft.<\/p>\n

Cheadle co-wrote the script with Steven Baigelman<\/strong>, and he’s also producing with his Crescendo partner Lenore Zerman<\/strong> and\u00a0BiFrost’s Daniel Wagner<\/strong>\u00a0and Robert Ogden Barnum<\/strong>, as well as Darryl Porte<\/strong>r and Vince Wilburn Jr<\/strong>. Baigelman and Cassian Elwes<\/strong> will executive produce with\u00a0Pamela Hirsch, Cheryl Davis<\/strong> and Erin Davis<\/strong>, while musician Herbie Hancock<\/strong>, who collaborated with Davis, will also be involved as music supervisor.<\/p>\n

\"miles-davis-don-cheadle-\"<\/a>Here are some highlights from Cheadle’s interview with the magazine as production on the film started today.<\/p>\n

How does it feel to finally begin production on Miles Ahead\u2014to be in costume and begin this process?<\/strong>
\nDON CHEADLE:<\/strong> It\u2019s a great shot; it\u2019s kinda cool, huh? I attribute that to my department to more than anything I\u2019m doing: That\u2019s hair, makeup, wardrobe, and props. But it\u2019s cool to be sitting on it and have it all begin. At this point, with everything that\u2019s happening, its real and surreal and hyperreal and every version of it that I can think of.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a sense you\u2019ve been working on this for a while.\u00a0Tell me about your exposure to Miles Davis\u2014was he someone you were exposed to at a young age?<\/strong>
\nDC:<\/strong> His music was definitely a part of my life very early on, thanks to my parents. And I was fortunate when I was young to have music teachers in school that also introduced us to jazz in general. I was maybe 10, in fifth grade, when I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the sax at a school which had instruments because we couldn\u2019t afford one. So I started playing sax, and was really a fan of Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderly. And through Cannonball I found Miles.<\/p>\n

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Are you going to focus on one particular aspect of his life or time period? You mentioned that to do a biopic, you\u2019d have to create something that\u2019s hours and hours long.<\/strong>
\nWell, the construction of the movie is the parallel story of Miles in 1979 at the end of this quiet period he was in, the five-year stretch of time when he wasn\u2019t playing and performing and recording, juxtaposed against the 10-year period where he was with Francis Taylor Davis, who, at the time, was the love of his life and his muse.<\/p>\n

A family\u2019s involvement can really make or break a project like this, especially when it comes to the music rights.<\/strong>
\nIt absolutely does. We wouldn\u2019t have been able to use the music we\u2019re using if the estate hadn\u2019t signed on and hadn\u2019t been on board. We\u2019re working with Sony and Columbia and the family and between the agreements of that triumvirate, we\u2019re able to use the music of his life, during the Columbia years.<\/p>\n

The rest can be read here…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n