Josh Harnett as Chet Baker?
Filed under: Drama, Music & Musicals, Casting, Newsstand
Josh Hartnett, whose career
appears to have gone into mini-revival mode with the pending releases of Lucky Number Slevin and The Black Dahlia, is also hoping take advantage of the current
explosion of music biopics. According to Variety, Hartnett is in talks to play the title role in the
forthcoming The Chet Baker Story, which will likely be directed by Bruce
Beresford. The screenplay was written by co-producer Julie Allan, and is an adaptation of
James Gavin's bio of the jazz superstar, Deep
in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker. With his prominent cheekbones and dark eyes, Hartnett actually looks
a bit like Baker, so this is one of those rare celebrity castings that isn't completely outrageous - one hopes that
he's actually become as good an actor as James Ellroy claims, and might be
able to do justice to the role.Interestingly, there's another Baker picture in the works, also based on a book. Looking for Chet Baker, however, is a novel-based thriller, which is in an earlier stage of development than the Hartnett project.
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