Born to Be Blue

Fans of jazz, or simply great musicians, will have something to celebrate this spring. Not only does Don Cheadle‘s Miles Davis biopic (although it’s more of a buddy comedy) Miles Ahead arrive in April, but a week prior we get Born to Be Blue, a biopic of jazz icon Chet Baker.

Played by Ethan Hawke and written and directed by Robert Budreau, the film premiered back at Toronto International Film Festival last fall and now we have the first trailer. Not detailing his whole life, it picks up his story late in his career in the late 1960’s where he attempts to mount a comeback.. Check out the trailer and poster below for the film also starring Carmen Ejogo and Callum Keith Rennie.

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.

Born to Be Blue poster

Born to Be Blue opens in theaters on March 25th and on VOD March 31st.

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