"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?"

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 May 1997 at the age of 30.

Here’s one intriguing what-if from the intersection of music and cinema: Brad Pitt almost starred as Jeff Buckley in a biopic about the late, legendary singer.