Don Cheadle's Miles Davis movie will be a 'gangster' film

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/03/don-cheadle-miles-davis-movie

The article is about the film Don Cheadle is recording about Miles David’s life. But the director doesn’t want to make a conventional biopic. He wants to focus on 1979, when the jazz player was retired from playing music. In that way, Cheadle plans to make a gangster film. He told the Wall Street Journal (via the Playlist). "It's not a biopic, per se. It's a gangster pic. It's a movie Miles Davis would have wanted to star in."

This movie wants to make a contrast with a typical biopic. Specific the George Tillman Jr’ film, which is based on a book by Davis's son. The director knows that ten years ago a film like this would have been a polemic production in the cinema business, but now the movie is something very uncommon, so people will be interested in seeing it.

The production requires a hard work of inquiring about the jazz player’s unknown story and remixing all the facts of Davis’s life. In that way, the movie tries to be more cubist than a typical film.

Miles Davis is a jazz legend, who died in 1991, with 65 years old. His heritage at jazz is so important, and Don Cheadle knows that. He will direct the film about the musician and will take the lead role himself.

The project is still in development, how ever, the director has all the intention of doing this, although he has to stick to a budget, of course, with out gutting the piece.