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The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad Pitt’s request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.
Born in Anaheim, California, [1] Buckley was the only son of Mary (née Guibert) and the singer-songwriter Tim Buckley.His mother was a Zonian of Greek, English, French and Panamanian descent, [6] while his father was the son of an Irish American father and an Italian American mother. [7]
Jeff Buckley’s mother has revealed Brad Pitt once approached her about starring in a biopic about her son.. The musician died in 1997 before his second album was complete.He was recording ...
Guibert agreed, however, remained skeptical of Pitt starring as her son. The two kept in touch about a potential project. Amy Berg then approached Guibert about making a film about Buckley, however, Guibert was skeptical of Berg transferring from non-fiction filmmaking to narrative. Berg decided to instead making a documentary, with Guibert ...
Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley is a studio album performed by various artists in tribute to 1960s musician Tim Buckley, and his son, also a musician, Jeff Buckley. Both father and son died prematurely, Tim Buckley of an overdose [4] and Jeff Buckley in a drowning accident. [5]
For more than two decades, filmmakers chased the lightning-in-a-bottle story of Jeff Buckley, one of the most gifted and promising musicians of his generation, who drowned in a Memphis river in ...
A task given to Nichols, who contacted Buckley’s original manager Herb Cohen, was subsequently provided details on the musician’s son, Jeff Buckley, and his own musical endeavours. This was new information to all concerned, and the contact was approached with hesitancy; "the least [we] could do was invite him to the concert as a courtesy ...
Brad Pitt once explored the possibility of starring in a biopic about Jeff Buckley, a talented and promising musician who died in 1997 at the age of 30.. Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, has ...