Brian Jun Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Mystery White Boy: the Long-Awaited Jeff Buckley Film Finally Gets a Title
Filed under: Documentary », Independent », Music & Musicals », Casting », Celebrities and Controversy », Scripts », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
Way back in June (yeah, that's light years ago in Internet time), Martha told you all about the efforts to finally make a movie about musician Jeff Buckley, who went for an evening swim in the Wolf River Marina fully clothed in 1997 and drowned. Mary Guibert, Buckley's mother, has long insisted that Buckley's death was accidental and was not related to drugs, alcohol, or mental illness; an autopsy showed no illegal drugs in his system at the time of his death. Hollywood has been interested in making a film about Buckley for years. Brad Pitt, according to a story in today's New York Times, once said that he was "obsessed" with Buckley's music, and tried more than once to get a film project about the late singer's life going; Pitt was thwarted by Guibert, who has struggled for years to not have her son's life, work and death distilled into a two-hour movie. She previously rejected scripts that portrayed her son as depressed and using drugs, and that delved too far into fantasy -- one rejected script by Emma Forrest
The Latest in Dead Rock Star Movies: The Jeff Buckley Story
Filed under: Drama », Independent », Deals », Newsstand », Cinematical Indie »
Just like they do his fellow gorgeous, troubled musician Chet Baker, Hollywood finds the late Jeff Buckley irresistible. Though the first effort to make a movie of his life seems to have foundered (the rights to Dream Brother: The Lives & Music of Jeff & Tim Buckley were purchased last year, but no move has been made on the film), a second attempt is now being made, this one with the involvement of Mary Guibert, Buckley's own mother. Still untitled, the film will be produced by Guibert and Michelle Sy (who executive-produced Finding Neverland, one of the effective biopics that convinced Guibert her son's story could be told successfully on screen) and will be written and directed by Brian Jun, whose recent success at Sundance with Steel City brought him to Guibert and Sy's attention.Though I know he was a very talented guy (and actually saw him in concert once), the only details I know about Buckley's life are that he drowned, and that his dad was Tim Buckley, so I don't have any particularly strong feelings about this news. Buckley fans, what do you guys think? Travesty waiting to happen, or a chance for the rest of us to get sucked into your obsession?
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