{"id":5748,"date":"2014-07-08T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2014-07-16T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:44:16","slug":"cheadle-plays-the-prince-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/08\/cheadle-plays-the-prince-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheadle Plays The Prince Of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2014\/07\/07\/first-look-don-cheadle-as-miles-davis-in-biopic-miles-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>First Look: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in biopic &#8216;Miles Ahead&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666666;\" title=\"Posts by Nina Terrero\" href=\"http:\/\/search.ew.com\/results.html?Ntt=%22Nina+Terrero%22&amp;type=ew:Nina+Terrero;&amp;Ns=p_publish_date|1||p_headline_sort|0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Nina Terrero<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/ew\/i\/2014\/07\/02\/don-cheadle_612x655.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Image Credit: Brian Douglas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Actor Don Cheadle\u2019s obsession with Miles Davis began as a child with the jazz trumpeter\u2019s album\u00a0<em style=\"color: #454545;\">Porgy and Bess<\/em><span style=\"color: #454545;\">, a beloved staple of his family\u2019s music collection<\/span><em style=\"color: #454545;\">.<\/em><span style=\"color: #454545;\">Now, Cheadle will make his feature film directorial debut with a crowdfunded biopic on Davis that will focus on the musician\u2019s transition into music after a five-year hiatus\u2014otherwise known as his \u201csilent period\u201d\u2014and tumultuous relationship with first wife Frances Taylor Davis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #454545;\">EW<\/em><span style=\"color: #454545;\">\u00a0exclusive of the actor in character, Cheadle gave fans a first look at his interpretation of the icon during in the period leading up to his 1969 jazz-rock fusion recording\u00a0<em style=\"color: #454545;\">In a Silent Way.\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #454545;\">\u201cIt\u2019s surreal,\u201d says the 49-year-old\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #454545;\">House of Lies<\/em><span style=\"color: #454545;\">\u00a0actor, who in the photograph totes a trumpet and sports Davis\u2019 trademark jheri-curled mullet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The biopic\u2014which will co-star Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg and Emayatzy Corinealdi\u2014begins shooting this week in Cincinnati after being in development for nearly a decade. Cheadle spoke to\u00a0<em>EW<\/em>\u00a0about the independent film\u2014which he co-wrote\u2014and shared details about how he was approached by the Davis family to profile the prodigious talent, why he turned to jazz heads to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #24bcc8;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/join-miles-ahead-a-don-cheadle-film\" target=\"_blank\">crowdsource funding<\/a>, and explained why he\u2019s set on making a movie that Davis himself \u201cwould want to star in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2014\/07\/07\/first-look-don-cheadle-as-miles-davis-in-biopic-miles-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at EW.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Entertainment Weekly First Look: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in biopic &#8216;Miles Ahead&#8217; By\u00a0Nina Terrero Image Credit: Brian Douglas Actor Don Cheadle\u2019s obsession with Miles Davis began as a child with the jazz trumpeter\u2019s album\u00a0Porgy and Bess, a beloved staple of his family\u2019s music collection.Now, Cheadle will make his feature film directorial debut with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}