Frank Wood ("Changeling," "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3") will play songwriter and Jeff Buckley collaborator Gary Lucas in the indie biopic "
Greetings From Tim Buckley," which begins shooting today in New York.
Penn Badgley ("Gossip Girl") has already been cast as Tim Buckley's son Jeff, whose 1991 debut performance at his father's tribute concert at St. Ann's church is considered the springboard to his own fleeting music career, cut short when he drowned in 1997. Imogen Poots had also been set for the pic, which will center on the days leading up to that concert; Broadway thesp Ben Rosenfield is set as the title character.