Who knew that Harnett had a thing for sweet, somnambulist cool jazz? “It’s not gonna happen,” the “30 Days of Night” star recently told MTV News. “We’ve been working on this for years, and the producers and I just couldn’t see eye-to-eye.”
Titled, “The Prince of Cool,” (another flashbulb of ‘thank god this isn’t happening!’), Harnett had hoped to start shooting this year, but has officially put the kibosh on the whole thing putting the blame on the producers that wanted to apparently rush the thing out the front door.
“They just wanted to bang something out,” he said of producers Julie Allen (”Night of the Demons III”), Pieter Kroonenburg (”My 5 Wives”), and Jonathan Vanger (”The Last Sign”). “There were a lot of biopics coming out at the time, and they just wanted to be a part of that.”
The young hearthrob, evidently also a fan of jazz greatst like Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, was also disappointed in the producer lack of creativity. “They didn’t want to make something that was new,” he frowned. “And the story was just too spectacular.”
Baker’s tragic rise and fall and struggles with heroin addiction were chronicled in the very excellent 1988 documentary “Let’s Get Lost.” Baker died falling out of an Amsterdam window, conveniently the same year the film was released.