BORN TO BE BLUE Trailer: Ethan Hawke Gets His Own Jazz Biopic
Just a few days after Don Cheadle appeared in a new trailer for his biopic of jazz legend Miles Davis, Ethan Hawke has popped up in the trailer for a quasi-biopic of a different jazz musician. Hawke plays trumpet master Chet Baker in Born to Be Blue, a new film from IFC Films that blends fact and fiction, and actually features someone playing Miles Davis in a supporting role. Carmen Ejogo plays Baker's love interest, and Robert Budreau directs. Interestingly, Budreau tackled this subject before in a short called The Deaths of Chet Baker back in 2009.
Born to Be Blue will hit theaters on March 31st, only a day before Cheadle's Miles Ahead arrives on the big screen.
Ethan Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend Chet Baker, whose tumultuous life is thrillingly reimagined with wit, verve, and style to burn. In the 1950s, Baker was one of the most famous trumpeters in the world, renowned as both a pioneer of the West Coast jazz scene and an icon of cool. By the 1960s, he was all but washed up, his career and personal life in shambles due to years of heroin addiction. In his innovative anti-biopic, director Robert Budreau zeroes in on Baker’s life at a key moment in the 1960s, just as the musician attempts to stage a hard-fought comeback, spurred in part by a passionate romance with a new flame (Carmen Ejogo). Creatively blending fact with fiction and driven by Hawke’s virtuoso performance, Born to Be Blue unfolds with all the stylistic brio and improvisatory genius of great jazz.