9 years after the death of singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley, a movie is going to be made on his life.
Jeff’s mother Mary Guibert says she has been approached almost annually from someone wanting to make a movie about her son and finally decided to give the go-ahead for the project so that she would have some control over the script.
“The fact that Jeff is no longer with us means that anyone can make a film or write a book about him without anyone’s permission or our participation, which nearly became reality last year” she says in a letter to fans at jeffbuckley.com. “That fact really got me to the point of re-thinking my stand on the subject. Nine years later, when I looked around, I saw films like “Ray”, “The Aviator”, “Walk the Line”, and “Finding Neverland” making it to the screen. Also, I had to come to the realization that I did not want someone else to be in control of how the script was written and on what information that script was based”.
The film is yet to be cast.
The directors job has gone to a young film-maker called Brian Jun, whose film Steel City was screen at Sundance earlier this year.
“I can tell Jeff’s fans with complete confidence that Brian is not the sort of fellow to sugar-coat or manipulate the facts” Mary says. “I’ve looked into his eyes and I know that he’s a straight shooter. There’s a depth of character to Brian, surprising in someone so young, and I have seen from his film-making that he has the courage and the skill to do this the way it should be done”.
