‘Gossip Girl’ Star Will Play Jeff Buckley in Biopic

“Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley has been cast as Jeff Buckley in a new movie based on the late singer’s relationship with his folk singer father Tim Buckley. The story will follow Jeff Buckley from his breakthrough performance at a tribute concert for his father, who abandoned him as an infant and died from a drug overdose in 1975, on through the singer’s tragic drowning death at age 30 in 1997.” Read the whole story here!