Keith Stanfield Joins Don Cheadle's Miles Davis Film, 'Miles Ahead'

Last year's acclaimed foster care drama Short Term 12 turned out to be a treasure trove of breakout talent. While Brie Larson gets the majority of attention, and rightfully so, co-star Keith Stanfield has turned the attention he received into multiple opportunities on major projects. He'll be seen later this summer in The Purge: Anarchy, and recently shot a role in Ava Duvernay's MLK biopic, Selma. And now he's joining another biopic, coming aboard Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle's directorial debut on jazz legend Miles Davis.

Stanfield will play Junior, an edgy and impressionable trumpet player in the film, which Cheadle wrote, directed, and stars in alongside Ewan McGregor. But this isn't your typical biopic chronicling the musician's career. Instead, it focuses on 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."

This has been a passion project for Cheadle, throwing everything into developing the film for years. He's enlisted the help of Herbie Hancock to supervise the music, and right now Cheadle is running an Indiegogo campaign to raise more funds in time for production to begin next month. [TheWrap]