Jeff Buckley.
(Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Imageslate musician’s mother Jeff Buckleywho drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down brad pitt A request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.
“We’re going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on those baby blues, and you’re going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice is going to come out?” a skeptic marie guibert told Diversity star in an interview published Saturday, January 25.
From Jeremy Alan White’s upcoming Bruce Springsteen film, to Timothée Chalamet showing off his Bob Dylan-like vocals in a complete unknown, music biopics seem to be everywhere. Still, these flicks aren’t a new phenomenon. Movies centered around the lives of music icons have been captivating audiences for decades, from 1980’s Coal Miner’s Daughter, about […]
Despite the fact that Pitt invited Guibert to his wedding to his ex-wife Jennifer AnistonGuibert would not move. The pair continued to speak about the possibility of a film about Buckley’s life, and with the help of the director amy bergUltimately landed on the best way to pay tribute to the late musician: a documentary.
“Once I started listening to their voicemail messages and their DAP players and demos and reading their magazines, I just couldn’t do anything other than watch a documentary,” Berg explained to the outlet. explained the outlet. “And I didn’t know how you could replicate Jeff in that scripted sense.”
The result is documentary It’s never over, Jeff BuckleyWhich premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Friday, January 24.
Guibert and the musician’s son Tim BuckleyWho left when his son was six months old and later died of a drug overdose at the age of 28, the younger Buckley signed a three-album deal with Columbia Records in 1992. She released her only record, Grace, in 1994, but struggled to handle the praise she received from fans and musicians she praised as her idol. bob dylan,
According to the film’s director Ed Zwick, the cover image was apparently of tension with Brad Pitt on the set of the 1994 film Legends of the Fall. In an excerpt from Zwick’s new memoir, Hits, Flops, and Other Delusions: My Fortysome Years in Hollywood, the director wrote that it fell to producer Marshall Herskowitz. […]
His death three years later was, as Variety said, “shrouded in mystery.” rolling stone published Test What went wrong that night failed to include Buckley’s autopsy results, something that Berg believes “probably contributed to Jeff’s legacy.” Instead, the singer drowned due to the strong undercurrent of the larger river.
Berg also said of the singer, “One of the great things about Jeff Buckley is you search for him to find him.” leonard cohen “Hallelujah.”
“He’s definitely made a big impact on TikTok, where I was surprised to see that he has more followers on the Jeff Buckley hashtag than even Bob Dylan,” she continued. “That’s definitely another moment in pop culture history.”
