Country Music Telvision is getting into the TV movie business. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall will all star in the country music drama, “Crazy Heart.” T Bone Burnett, the composer and producer who made a splash at the Grammys in 2001 with the music composed for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” will be writing the film’s original music and soundtrack.
The plot focuse on an unlucky and downtrodden, alcoholic country music singer (Bridges) who attempts to get his life and career back on track with the help and love of a female reporter (Gyllenhaal). The film is supposed to start next month around Santa Fe, N.M and Bridges will actually perform some of the original songs in the film.
No word on what Duvall’s role is (Bridge’s dad?), but obviously he’s starred in very similar film starring a down and out alcoholic country star saved by a woman, 1983’s “Tender Mercies.”
