Kurt Cobain is a dead rock star. Kurt Cobain is a Grunge icon. Kurt Cobain is an idol. Kurt Cobain is a legend. Kurt Cobain is a god!
Kurt Cobain is one of the most controversial personalities of the past century and maybe one of the most controversial ever. So, doing a biopic about such as icon is almost inevitable and this is going to happen!
In fact, there's a lot of rumours about this movie, but since some time ago the dream film is becoming reality: there's an attached director (Oren Moverman), there's a script and there's casting rumors.
There's an article about Oren Moverman that was published yesterday:
"According to Collider.com, Oscar-nominated director Oren Moverman is set to helm and rewrite the anticipated biopic of Kurt Cobain. Moverman has established his biopic bona fides with the screenplay for I’m Not There, the Todd Haynes-directed film that was a decidedly bizarre (and un-mainstream) trip through the life and psyche of Bob Dylan (portrayed by no less than six different actors, both male and female). This is good news for Nirvana fans, many of whom feared what would become of the notoriously iconoclastic songwriter in a typical Hollywood film.
Moverman’s rewrite of David Benioff's script draws on Charles Cross’ biography Heavier Than Heaven, criticized by some for including trivial details of Cobain’s life and citing questionable sources. Moverman offered his own two cents on the subject as reassurance:
“It’ll be raw and chaotic, which is what Cobain’s life was like, but it’s more linear than I’m Not There; it’ll take you from A to Z. People know the shortcut version — he took a lot of heroin, wrote ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, became the biggest rock star in the world, and killed himself. Those known things about him are to me the least interesting.”"
Moverman’s rewrite of David Benioff's script draws on Charles Cross’ biography Heavier Than Heaven, criticized by some for including trivial details of Cobain’s life and citing questionable sources. Moverman offered his own two cents on the subject as reassurance:
“It’ll be raw and chaotic, which is what Cobain’s life was like, but it’s more linear than I’m Not There; it’ll take you from A to Z. People know the shortcut version — he took a lot of heroin, wrote ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, became the biggest rock star in the world, and killed himself. Those known things about him are to me the least interesting.”"
(article from http://www.nypress.com/blog-6891-oren-moverman-to-rewrite-and-helm-kurt-cobain-biopic.html (adapted))
The media say Courtney Love want the best actors to play her death husband and herself. She said she would like to have Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine) or James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland and Atonement) to play Kurt and Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation, Match Point and Vicky Cristina Barcelona) to play herself.
The media say Courtney Love want the best actors to play her death husband and herself. She said she would like to have Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl and Blue Valentine) or James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland and Atonement) to play Kurt and Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation, Match Point and Vicky Cristina Barcelona) to play herself.
I really don't blame her for wanting talented actors portraying the "power couple" of the 90's, and I admit it would be interesting having these actors together, which could become this film "pedigree" much higher, making this picture a serious production
So, the movie goes ahead and I hope so! A more personal view from Kurt Cobain may result in an interesting movie, but it will be "caotic", so, I hope it will have energy but not enough in order it will be a mess...
But how would be the perfect cast?
