Trio Join "Mystery White Boy"

Gemma Arterton, Olivia Thirlby and Harry Treadaway have signed on to the Jeff Buckley biopic called "Mystery White Boy" says The Daily Mail.

Buckley (played here by Reeve Carney who starred in the famously troubled stage production "Spider-Man:Turn Off The Dark") emerged on the club scene in New York City in the early 1990s and recorded his only studio album in 1994. After two years of touring, Buckley had begun work on his second album when he drowned in a boating accident in 1997 at the age of thirty. Since his death, his work has gone on to achieve success.

Arterton would play a character who represents the partying women in his life, while Thirlby stands in for the more responsible partners with whom he enjoyed relationships. Treadaway will play Buckley’s first drummer Matt Johnson.

Patricia Arquette has agreed to cameo as the mother of Buckley

Director Jake Scott (Welcome to the Rileys, son of Ridley Scott) will call action here having been granted full access to Buckley’s catalog of music by his mother, Mary Guibert.

Ryan Jaffe wrote the script.

Guibert serves as executive producer, while Orian Williams and Michelle Sy will produce.
The filmmakers have been granted full access to Buckley’s catalog of music and will shoot the project in New York and Memphis.

This is not to be confused with Daniel Algrant's now finished rival project "Greetings From Tim Buckley" which stars Penn Badgley as Buckley who reconnects with his estranged father Tim Buckley by singing at a tribute concert for his folk-singer dad and co-stars Imogen Poots.