Long-awaited Jeff Buckley documentary, It’s Never Over, premiers at Sundance this week. But how full is the story depicted?

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.

Brad Pitt initially sought permission from Jeff Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, to star in a biopic about the late musician ...

The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad Pitt’s request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.

Jeff Buckley ... working hard to get a Buckley film off the ground in the early 2000s, just a few years after the musician died in 1997 from drowning in a Memphis river. Buckley’s mother ...

It becomes clear from the film that Buckley ... t believe that Jeff’s death was a suicide, but it was an outgrowth of his reckless behavior (no one swam in the Wolf River).

Berg does not linger over parallels between the deaths of Tim and Jeff Buckley. That association fueled the mystery around the latter’s drowning in the Wolf River in Memphis in 1997, just as the ...

Several years before Buckley’s music found its appreciative new audience on social media, Berg began working on a film about the singer — It’s Never Over, Jeff ... in a river in Memphis ...

Mary Guibert had reservations about Pitt portraying her son — though the actor did executive produce Amy Berg's new doc on ...

The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad ...