Don Cheadle's Miles Davis Will Head to Theaters

Don Cheadle and Sony Pictures Classics are going to be making sweet music together.

The studio has acquired the worldwide rights for "Miles Ahead," the story of legendary jazzman Miles Davis -- and the directorial debut for Cheadle, it was announced Wednesday.

“Miles was many things… a supreme artist and a national treasure but also an enigma to those around him, especially during his so-called quiet period,” says Cheadle, who also plays Davis. “With the family’s blessing and Miles’ tenets on creativity as our guide, we used these cloistered years as a jumping off point to compose the story of a self-exiled artist creating his own ‘centrifugal adventure’ to spin himself back into playing music again.”

"Miles Ahead" premieres Oct. 11 at the New York Film Festival.

A nationwide theatrical release date has not been announced, but it is expected to hit theaters this fall.