The First Image: Don Cheadle as Miles Davis

EW shared this pic, which Don Cheadle posing with his head bowed down, wearing Miles Davis signature jheri-cured mullet and a trumpet engraved with name of  Miles Ahead's hero. This will be Cheadle's first directorial debut on the biopic that is now in production.  

The biopic of Miles Davis will focus on the five-year span where he stopped making music and his troubled marriage to Frances Taylor Davis, which led up to the creation of Davis's 1969 jazz-rock album in a Silent Way. 

 

This was Don Cheadle's dream project going back to 2006.  Rumors of a screenplay was completed, but as the year went by nothing came to light. Without the backing of any major studio, Cheadle decided to it on his own and Miles Ahead is now shooting in Cincinnati, Ohio. No release date has yet been set.