Read More: Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson Thriller 'Regression' to Open the 63rd San Sebastian Festival No stranger to playing men of a certain age, Ethan Hawke makes a musical turn as legendary jazz performer Chet Baker in "Born to be Blue," set to premiere at Tiff later this month. The film, which is promised to be more immersive and creative than your standard biopic, is directed by Robert Budreau and marks his first feature film in 9 years, following his debut "That Beautiful Somewhere" in 2006. The film chronicles Baker's life in the late 1960s after many years of drug abuse and financial problems. "Blue" focuses on his attempt at a comeback and his struggle with unforeseen events that continue to pose a threat to his success and recovery. Hawke, who is riding high after his Oscar-nominated performance in "Boyhood" earlier this year, stars with "Selma's" Carmen Ejogo,...
- 9/3/2015
- by Aubrey Page
- Indiewire
Ethan Hawke has signed on to play legendary, and profoundly sad, junkie trumpeter Chet Baker in a biopic to be directed by Robert Budreau ("That Beautiful Somewhere"). Hawke participated in developing "Born to Be Blue," which costars Carmen Ejogo and Callum Keith Rennie and will focus on the late-career Baker who, emerging from a fog of drug abuse and self-destruction, attempted to stage a comeback before falling down one last time--tragically, out of a window. We may see 1987 "Live in Tokyo"-era Baker, one of his final tours a year before he died facedown in an Amsterdam street in 1988, drugged to the gills and alone. It's a tragic and triumphant performance that almost had the world fooled that he could survive. (The New York Times' John Vinocur writes a glimmering story here.) Can Hawke pull it off? Baker was devastating and debonair until addiction rendered him ungainly and physically bereft.
- 10/27/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
K5 to handle sales, eOne to distribute in Canada.
Shoot is underway in Ontario on drama Born To Be Blue starring Ethan Hawke as iconic jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
Written and directed by Robert Budreau (That Beautiful Somewhere) the biopic will chart Baker’s tumultuous career, including his meteoric rise and road to redemption after his self-destructive instincts almost derail him.
Carmen Ejogo (The Purge: Anarchy) and Callum Keith Rennie (Fifty Shades of Grey) co-star.
K5 will introduce the project to buyers at the Afm. eOne has boarded Canadian rights.
Producers are Jennifer Jonas and Leonard Farlinger of New Real Films, Budreau of Lumanity Productions and Jake Seal of Black Hangar Studios.
Executive producers include William Santor, John Hills, Andrew Chang-sang of Productivity Media, Adam Moryto, Stefan Jacobs, D. Matt Geller and Gurpreet Chandhoke.
“Chet Baker was and remains a truly iconic figure, but the real strength of this project is the incredibly powerful love story at its...
Shoot is underway in Ontario on drama Born To Be Blue starring Ethan Hawke as iconic jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
Written and directed by Robert Budreau (That Beautiful Somewhere) the biopic will chart Baker’s tumultuous career, including his meteoric rise and road to redemption after his self-destructive instincts almost derail him.
Carmen Ejogo (The Purge: Anarchy) and Callum Keith Rennie (Fifty Shades of Grey) co-star.
K5 will introduce the project to buyers at the Afm. eOne has boarded Canadian rights.
Producers are Jennifer Jonas and Leonard Farlinger of New Real Films, Budreau of Lumanity Productions and Jake Seal of Black Hangar Studios.
Executive producers include William Santor, John Hills, Andrew Chang-sang of Productivity Media, Adam Moryto, Stefan Jacobs, D. Matt Geller and Gurpreet Chandhoke.
“Chet Baker was and remains a truly iconic figure, but the real strength of this project is the incredibly powerful love story at its...
- 10/23/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Ethan Hawke has signed on to play Chet Baker in a new biopic about the legendary jazz trumpeter. Born to Be Blue picks up with the Baker story late in the musician’s life, when, after years of drug abuse, he stages a comeback. Robert Budreau (That Beautiful Somewhere) is directing Born to Be Blue from his own screenplay. Hawke has worked closely on the development of the project, which will largely shoot in Sudbury, Ontario. Born to Be Blue is the second big jazz biopic to hit the market, following Don Cheadle's Miles Davis project Kill the Trumpet Player, which
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- 10/23/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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