The Miles Davis Movie: Is Antoine Fuqua Directing The Miles Davis Biopic?
Director Antoine Fuqua’s name has been associated for many years with the Miles Davis Biopic. I have always figured Don Cheadle would direct the film, along with portraying the jazz legend. In March of 2007, news officially broke of Cheadle’s involvement with the project; a story in Variety noted that Cheadle would make his feature [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: An Offer On The Table, But No Details
No big surprise that there hasn’t been much news lately for the Miles Davis Movie. The project’s chief visionary, Don Cheadle, recently made news by joining Denzel Washington in the Robert Zemeckis drama Flight. And let’s not forget Showtime’s upcoming comedy, House of Lies, which stars Cheadle and Kristen Bell and debuts in early 2012. [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Why Not A Feature Documentary About Miles Davis?
I just finished watching When You’re Strange, Tom DiCillo’s feature documentary about the music and legacy of The Doors. I thought it was rather well-done and interesting. I like The Doors, so it’s no stretch for me to be a fan of the doc, which features some mighty impressive footage. So I wonder, even with [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: “We’re struggling through, but it’s going to happen,” Says Don Cheadle
Talk of the Miles Davis Movie makes it into a recent Don Cheadle interview with New York Magazine. Between talk of his new film The Guard and his latest work as a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for the environment, Cheadle delivers some words about the process of getting the Miles Davis film off the ground. There’s [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: A Day In The Life
Don Cheadle recently discussed the status of the Miles Davis Biopic in an interview with Collider.com. For me, the highlight of his comments was describing the film as taking place “over a day and a half of his life — a very intense day and a half of his life…” We’ve known for awhile now [...]
Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing?*
The following Don Cheadle news comes via Deadline Hollywood and reporter Nellie Andreeva: Don Cheadle, star of Showtime’s upcoming comedy series House of Lies, is expanding his relationship with the pay cable network through a first-look deal for his Crescendo Prods. Under the one-year pact, Cheadle and his producing partners Kay Liberman and Lenore Zerman [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Says ‘It’s Not A Biopic’
Collider makes my day with a new interview with Don Cheadle. In between discussing Iron Man 3, The Avengers and his new Showtime project House of Lies, Collider’s Sheila Roberts was able to get Cheadle to discuss the Miles Davis Biopic. Q: A while back you talked to us about the Miles Davis project with [...]
The Miles Davis Movie: Waiting So Long
Just to give you an idea of where we stand on the Miles Davis Movie timeline, I began tracking the film project in March 2007 for my blog The Miles Davis Movie. It was at this time Don Cheadle had officially come aboard to the project. Here is the link to a March 14, 2007 [...]
Miles Davis: In Just Four Icons
Madison, WI-based designer Kyle Tezak has a great website. One of his ongoing projects is The Four Icon Challenge. The goal is to use just four icons at a time to represent some of his favorite films, books, etc. It’s minimal, it’s cool and it’s awesome! I think ‘The Great Gatsby’ is my favorite of [...]
Hey, What’s Don Cheadle Doing?*
Showtime Orders New Series Starring Don Cheadle and Claire Danes: In “House of Lies,” Mr. Cheadle plays a ruthless management consultant and Kristen Bell (“Veronica Mars”) plays a colleague at his firm. via artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com * when he’s not working on the Miles Davis Biopic
