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THURSDAY NOON UPDATE: This latest Kurt Cobain biopic will strive to be true to life. All Apologies (its working title) has secured the music rights from Cobain’s widow Courtney Love. But she can’t stop the project from happening, or so I’m told.
Wednesday 11:15 PM: Oren Moverman is moving up from a film about death and survival, to a film about a grunge god who commits suicide. I’m talking about the long gestating Kurt Cobain biopic which the helmer of 2009′s The Messenger has been offered to direct from the David Benioff script (known around town as All Apologies). Benioff and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce the drama for Universal. Pic covers the final 2 days in the life of the Nirvana singer and songwriter and guitarist right up to his suicide. (In 2005, Gus Van Sant wrote, directed and produced with HBO the theatrical release Last Days, a fictionalized account also dealing with the period before Cobain’s suicide. And, in the 1998 documentary Kurt & Courtney, filmmaker Nick Broomfield investigated claims that Cobain was actually murdered.) I’m told the plan is for Moverman to do a polish and direct, with dealmaking to begin shortly. He and Todd Haynes co-wrote the Bob Dylan drama I’m Not There, and Moverman with Alessandro Camon is now up for an Oscar for their script for The Messenger. But this Cobain biopic smells like a compelling project to me.
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Why won’t movie -land leave people like Kurt Cobain to RIP. He was so unheappy in his private life, at least let him go in death. The same gopes for all those poor, demented artistes….MacQueen,
the Buckleys….their are so many. Stop wiht the scandal mongering biopics as they are christened
God what a potential sounding nightmare. Last 2 days of his life? 2 days of heroin, hiding out and scratching around? So Nirvana and Courtney and all the rest of it will be in flashback? Why don’t they just go the whole hog and get Zac Efron in a wig to play Kurt
Playing Dave Grohl? Joshua Gomez.
Playing Courtney Love? A rusty trash can.
remember what the nanny said in the documentary – if he wasn’t murdered he was driven to murder himself – hope this project doesn’t paint over actual tragedy – and what control does Love have over this project?
I’m sorry…I believe I misread this article. “I’m told the plan is for Moverman to do a polish and direct…”?
No disrespect to Oren, and I am not in any way, shape or form affiliated with Benioff or his team, but “Moverman to do a polish…”? Really??
I’m not ignorant to the ways of Hollywood but REALLY? Oren should be polishing SOMETHING for the opportunity to direct this but it ain’t the script!
I personally loved Gus’s version. What more needs to be said? Now, if he were in fact murdered, well that might be worth looking into.
NOO!!!!!
This will never work. I Smell disaster.
Musicians that you simply can’t touch in a feature film are:
Elvis Presely (every attempt has been awful)
John Lennon (see Nowhere Boy-at least here they didn’t try to capture John as we all knew him)
Robert Plant (who could possibly play him)
AND…
Kurt Cobain
cobain did live for more than two days you know – seems the easy and gimmicky way to go…again.
Courtney Love will be played by a muppet.
Speaking as someone who was in college during the so-called Grunge Era of the early ’90s and who saw Nirvana play live twice (on the Bleach tour, before they hit it big), I have to say that I have no interest whatsoever in seeing this film. And a poll of my college friends now in their late 30s and early 40s reveals they feel largely the same way. “Maybe ten years ago,” said one friend. “But not today. I’m too tired from work and the kids and anyway that was a long time ago.” And I don’t see the kids of today listening to Nirvana albums so I’m not really sure who is going to go see this film. However I wish the filmmakers luck all the same. If they could somehow get their marketing dept. to hook up with Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters to have some sort of tie-in, it might work.
i agree they shouldn’t tackle this project either, I just want to point out that there are many kids that listen to nirvana, just like there are many that listen to classic rock. I think they should wait until the perfect person comes along, like the jamie fox situation, the director of ray wanted to make that movie for like 15 years, he was originally wanted someone who would have might have done it justice, but obviously came out so much better because he waited. They should just wait until COurtney Love Overdoses so she can’t put her two cents in
Wait, so it’s just going to cover the last 2 days of his life? Can that really be considered a biopic? I was hoping for a more overarching story of his life and the rise of Nirvana.
This sounds like more of a film about Kurt’s death .. not his life.
Compelling? This is why “No one knows anything” to quote William Goldman. They’re too far up Hollywood’s nether regions to figure out what ordinary people like.
A guy whose life was so miserable despite considerable musical talent, fame, and the ability to entertain millions of people through his music, commits suicide and leaves his widow … and young daughter, alone?
THAT does not sound like a fun time in a theater for two hours to me.
“Smells like a compelling project”? Really…
From here it smells like 16 year old crusty Teen Spirit. Can’t say there’s a lot of suspense about the ending of this film.
I bet it never gets made.
It is certain, with its respect for anti-authoritarian creativity, its interest in Cobain’s study of Jainism, its love of the outsider, the Hollywood entertainment industry will deliver a rich, provocative, insightful biopic of American artist Kurt Cobain, starring, most likely, a bleached out, cranky Jared Leto and a sassy, free-spirited Courtney, as portrayed by Gollum.
This is very ironic. The guy who helped me move all my furniture was named Oren Movieman. And now here’s a movie maker named Oren Moverman. Perhaps they were switched at birth?
Is this the film Ryan Gosling was attached to as Cobain? Courtney Love announced it maybe a year or two ago….
Its cool that their making a movie, but only the last two days, there is so much more ,his childhood, dealing with fame he has an intersting life , so why focus on the bad stuff? focus on the music and how he changed rock music foever! If they do this it will be just a repeat of Last days with name changes thats all come you directors think about this one