Filming begins this month on Steve Taylor directed Blue Like Jazz

FUNDING has now been found for the production of the feature film of the best selling book by Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz. The film is being directed by musician, record producer and film director Steve Taylor. Said Taylor in a message to the campaign's supporters, "We're still a very 'indie' production. All of us in the writer/producer/director categories are deferring getting paid until the movie's profitable. Any additional money we raise goes 'on the screen.'" Due to the amount being raised and matched donations from financial backers, the movie will begin filming at the end of the month in Nashville, Tennessee and in Miller's hometown of Portland, Oregon. Marshall Allman (True Blood, Prison Break) will star in the lead role. Miller's Blue Like Jazz has sold 1.3 million copies to date and the writing of the movie's screenplay was even highlighted in his latest New York Times bestseller A Million Miles In A Thousand Years.