Jeff Buckley’s mom, Mary Guibert, has opened up about being pitched a biopic about her late son starring Brad Pitt.
In an interview with Selection, Guibert remembered Pitt’s efforts to get a inexperienced gentle for the biopic in 2000. After the actor invited Guibert to lunch at his residence and put her on the visitor record for his wedding ceremony to Jennifer Aniston, she initially mentioned sure.
Nonetheless, Guibert quickly turned skeptical about Pitt being the best match for the position. “We’re going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on these child blues, and also you’re going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice goes to come back out?” she advised him.
The challenge finally pivoted to an upcoming documentary titled It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley after director Amy Berg got here aboard and had an epiphany whereas combing by Buckley’s archives.
“As soon as I began listening to his voicemail messages and his DAP participant and demos and studying his journals, I simply couldn’t think about it being something however a documentary,” Berg defined. “And I simply didn’t understand how you may sort of replicate Jeff in that scripted sense.”
Pitt remained concerned within the challenge, serving as an government producer and aiding in digitizing and preserving all of Buckley’s belongings.
Buckley was solely 30 years previous when he died in an unintentional drowning in Could 1997. Premiering at Sundance on January twenty fourth, It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley options interviews with Aimee Mann and Ben Harper, amongst others.
Final August marked the thirtieth anniversary of Buckley’s sole studio album, Grace.