Bill Pohlad's 'Miles & Juliette' Begins Paris Production — SkimNews
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- Bill Pohlad's new feature 'Miles & Juliette' has started production in Paris through his River Road Entertainment, with a first-look image unveiled.
- Damson Idris stars as a 22-year-old Miles Davis and Anamaria Vartolomei as Juliette Gréco, depicting the jazz legend's transformative 1949 trip to Paris and his romance with the French singer and actress.
- The supporting cast includes J. Alphonse Nicholson as Kenny "Klook" Clarke, Jay Reeves as Tadd Dameron, Grammy-winning Terrace Martin as Charlie Parker, Denny Love as James Moody, Lodric D. Collins as Max Roach, and Hubert Point-Du Jour as John Coltrane.
- Zora Howard, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, wrote the screenplay, while Grammy-winning musician Robert Glasper — a longtime Davis disciple who produced the 2016 Miles Davis tribute album 'Everything's Beautiful' — serves as composer and music producer.
- Mick Jagger and Victoria Pearman are producing for Jagged Films alongside Pohlad, Andrew Van Wyk, Kim Roth, and Dan Clifton, with French production services handled by Pascal Caucheteux's Why Not Productions.
- The Miles Davis estate is represented by executive producers Erin Davis, Cheryl Davis, and Vincent Wilburn Jr., and CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights.
Why it matters: Pohlad's track record with the Brian Wilson biopic 'Love & Mercy' positions 'Miles & Juliette' as a prestige jazz biography with full estate cooperation and an unusually deep musical team — including Glasper as composer and a supporting cast drawn from real jazz figures who shaped Davis in Paris. The 1949 Paris setting places the film at the exact moment Davis absorbed bebop, an inflection point the film will dramatize through his relationship with Gréco.
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