“Short Term 12” star Keith Stanfield has landed the third lead alongside Don Cheadle and Ewan McGregor in the Miles Davis movie “Miles Ahead,” which will serve as Cheadle’s feature directorial debut, an individual familiar with the indie project has told TheWrap.
Rather than a traditional biopic, “Miles Ahead” chronicles a few dangerous days in Davis’ life as the jazz icon (Cheadle) teams with a Rolling Stone journalist (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.
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A co-production between Cheadle’s Crescendo Productions and financier BiFrost Pictures, the period picture will start production next month in Cincinnati.