Miles Ahead is a huge project for Don Cheadle. Not only is it the actor's directorial debut, but he's stepping into the shoes of jazz legend Miles Davis. The biopic is unusual in that it follows the musician not at his career peak, but rather in the late '70s, during his more reclusive period. Like the David Foster Wallace biopic End of the Tour from last year, Miles Ahead pairs up an eccentric genius with a journalist. Ewan McGregor co-stars as a Rolling Stone writer "here to write your comeback story."
So why that period of his life? Cheadle tells EW:
EW also notes that back in 2006 Davis' nephew Vince Wilburn told reporters if anyone were to play his uncle in a movie, it would have to be Cheadle. Well 10 years later it's finally happened! Watch the trailer above.
Miles Ahead opens April 1.
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