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It will be a fall calendar filled with music biopics. Tom Hiddleston will be strumming the guitar as Hank Williams in "I Saw The Light," Don Cheadle will take on the legendary Miles Davis in "Miles Ahead," and Ethan Hawke channels Chet Baker in "Born To Be Blue." And today we get the first taste of the latter in action. Directed by Robert Budreau, who previously made a short about the jazz musician, "The Deaths Of Chet Baker," "Born To Be Blue" celebrates Baker's life, mixing fact and fiction to detail his comeback journey following a personal and public fall. Here's the official synopsis:  Read More: Review: Heartwarming And Funny 'Ten Thousand Saints' Staring Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke is an utterly magnetic screen presence as Chet Baker, the legendary trumpeter and singer who, after becoming a jazz icon in the 1950s, became equally famous for his drug addiction.

Shooting has begun in Ontario on Chet Baker biopic Born To Be Blue with Ethan Hawke as the legendary jazz trumpeter. Written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Robert Budreau, the drama is inspired by Baker’s rise, fall and eventual resurgence. The story will chart his comeback in the late 1970s and the tumultuous love affair that changed the way he played music and helped him on the road to redemption after his self-destructive ways had seemingly destroyed his career.

Also starring with Hawke are Carmen Ejogo (The Purge: Anarchy, Selma) and Callum Keith Rennie (Fifty Shades Of Grey). Hawke has worked closely this year with the filmmakers to develop the project. Budreau has a history of music-related work including the short Dream Recording with jazz pianist David Braid, and a short about Baker’s ultimate demise, The Deaths Of Chet Baker. He’s repped by Brooke Ehrlich Artist Management.