Damson Idris (F1) and Anamaria Vartolomei (Mickey 17) are main a film a few younger Miles Davis from River Highway Leisure and Mick Jagger‘s Jagged Movies.
Goodfellas will launch gross sales at Cannes this week on Miles & Juliette, which tells the story of 22-year-old iconic jazz musician Davis (Idris) on a transformative journey to Paris in 1949, the place he falls right into a passionate romance with Juliette Gréco (Vartolomei), the French singer, actress, and Left Financial institution icon. What begins as an intimate affair blossoms right into a profound connection between two younger artists—simply earlier than they grew to become cultural legends.
The film comes from Invoice Pohlad (Love & Mercy, Dreamin’ Wild) and is being penned by Pulitzer Prize finalist Zora Howard (STEW, Untimely), with Xavier Dolan additionally forged.
Rolling Stones icon Jagger is producing through his banner with Victoria Pearman and the Miles Davis Property is on board. Jagged Movies has made various tasks down the years largely about musicians together with James Brown: Say it Loud and Jerry Lee Lewis: Bother in Thoughts.
Jagger known as Davis “inarguably probably the most influential and essential musicians of the twentieth Century.”
Pohlad added: “Although a lot of my work has centered on music, I’ve all the time been drawn to the intimacy and complexity of an amazing love story. With Miles & Juliette, I really feel extremely lucky to discover each—by means of the lens of two artists whose connection was as fleeting because it was life-changing. This story isn’t nearly Miles Davis and Juliette Gréco—it’s in regards to the common rhythm of falling in love, of being remodeled by it, and of carrying its echo with you lengthy after the second has handed.”
Goodfellas will launch worldwide gross sales for Miles & Juliette on the Cannes Movie Market this month. CAA Media Finance is dealing with North American rights. Idris is represented by CAA, M88 and legal professional John Meigs. Vartolomei is repped by CAA and UBBA. Dolan by CAA and Thirty Three Administration. Pohlad by CAA and Untitled. Howard by CAA. Jagged Movies by CAA and David Fox.
