Keith Stanfield ("Short Term 12") has joined join the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead aka Kill The Trumpet Player says The Wrap.
Actor Don Cheadle’s set to star in and make his feature film directorial debut here. The story chronicles a few dangerous days in Davis (Cheadle)’ life when he teams up with a Rolling Stone journalist (Ewan McGregor) to hunt
down a stolen recording intended to reignite his career.
Stanfield will
play Junior, an edgy but impressionable trumpet player involved in the
theft.
Zoe Saldana also stars.
Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson penned the script.
Cheadle Daniel Wagner, Robert Ogden Barnum Darryl Porter Vince Wilburn Jr, Lenore Zerman
and Pamela Hirsch will produce the pic
Herbie Hancock is the musical supervisor.
Production begins next month in Cincinnati.
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