Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley will play the part of Jeff Buckley in a forthcoming biopic of the late star.

'Greetings from Tim Buckley', will will star Badgley will centre around the complex father-son relationship Jeff had with his father who also died young.

Producer Patrick Milling Smith said: "We see Jeff accepting who he is to become and laying to rest the ghost of his father while ultimately finding his voice. We had been searching well over a year for an actor that can come close to Jeff's spirit while also having the serious musical chops required to authentically tell this story. Penn's audition blew us away and we knew we [had] found our star."

Buckley drowned in the Wolf river in Tennessee in 1997 at the age of 30. His father, Tim Buckley died of a heroin overdose in 1975.

Watch Jeff Buckley perform 'Mojo Pin' at the Glastonbury Festival in 1995 below: