Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckley

Jeff Buckleylooks to be the next major musician to get the Hollywood biopic treatment, and while both his life and career were tragically brief, Buckley’s legacy is as strong as ever. A good biopic will serve to expose his music to a wider audience, but we doubt that a weak biopic would be able to tarnish his image.
Thankfully, though, it looks like some real talent has been brought to this project. According toScreenCrave, Jake Scott, director of Welcome to the Rileys and son of acclaimed filmmaker Ridley Scott, has been hired to helm the film.

Although Scott has only made two feature films so far, he does have a lot of experience in the realm of popular music, directing videos for such acts as Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead. Perhaps that work will be beneficial on this project.
In the meantime, we’re wondering about major casting decisions. A while back we reported that Robert Pattinson may be in the running to play Buckley, but that is certainly not set in stone, and honestly, we’re not he has the skill to pull it off. Not yet, at least.
Buckley was a fantastic musician and a true artist. While this film can do little to affect our opinion of him, we do hope that everyone involved treats the material with the proper degree of respect and reverence. He deserves nothing less.
Sources: http://beatcrave.com

Jeff Buckley