Those who have been anticipating the Miles Davis biopic, since it first went into development over ten years ago, may get some good news soon.

The long-in-development project is gaining momentum, according to TwentyFourBit.com. And Herbie Hanock will score the film, which stars Academy Award winner Don Cheadle.

TwentyFourBit points us toward a recent interview with YRB magazine, in which Davis’s son Erin Davis and nephew Vince Wilburn, Jr., said, “Herbie Hancock’s going to score it and Don Cheadle’s directing and starring,” later adding, “Don didn’t like the other writer that was attached to the movie, so there’s a new writer named Steven Vegelman that Don’s writing with. Once is the script is OK’d by the family, then we go into production.”

Then Cheadle recently told Parade magazine, “It’s been a long time coming, but we’re working on the script right now.”

Davis, a trumpet player, bandleader and composer, who died in 1991, is considered one of the greatest jazz legends of the 20th century. But that doesn’t mean he is the best known. Cheadle told Vibe magazine, “Miles Davis is a beloved artist, but not to the degree that a 17-year old would know who he is. Unfortunately, people don’t know the seeds. In my attempt to tell the story, I’m not trying to do some reverential all-of-us-bow-down-to-Miles-the-icon. I’m trying to present him as a man.”

And he added that he is “trying to make a movie that Miles Davis would want to make.”

Hancock played with Davis’s Second Great Quintet, beginning in 1963 and has gone on to become a jazz icon in his own right. He won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2008 with River: The Joni Letters.

There is no official word on when we might see the Davis movie but Cheadle said in his Vibe interview that, “We are coming right up on the end point. I think we are getting to the point where we may get some traction and get it going.”