This one’s for you jazz fans (and I guess people who just like good movies). The first trailer for Miles Ahead, a Miles Davis “anti-biopic” directed by Don Cheadle, dropped today and frankly, it looks really cool.
The movie marks Cheadle’s directorial debut, and according to the interview provided with the trailer over at Entertainment Weekly, he wasn’t initially signed on to direct.
… when it first came to me, it was just something for me to act in. When I met with [Miles’] family, I told them I wanted to do something that wasn’t like I had seen before, and I had a take on the movie, that if I was going to play him, that it had to be as creative and different, that if it wasn’t as aspirational as he was, then I wasn’t really that interested. And before I got to my house after that meeting, it kind of came to me that that would be hard for anyone else possibly to see it the same way that I was seeing it, so if I was going to do it, I’d probably have to direct it. And as I was calling them, they were kind of calling me to say the same thing.
The movie also stars Ewan McGregor in a role similar to the one he had in The Men Who Stare At Goats. He plays a journalist who’s researching a story on Davis, and ends up on a bit of an adventure/journey with him to recover one of Davis’ stolen tapes.
It’s considered an “anti-biopic,” as I mentioned earlier, because it doesn’t follow quite the same formula as other biopics. The difference with Miles Ahead is that it focuses on a specific part of Davis’ life and, looking at the trailer, seems to feel more focused on a single particular story.
What do you think of the trailer?
(via /Film)
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