Smells Like a biopic
Oct. 19, 2007
Jim Morrisson had THE DOORS. Janis Joplin has biopics in the works with Renee Zellweger and Zooey Deschanel. Jimi Hendrix has...well, didn't LL Cool J once almost star in a movie titled PURPLE HAZE? In any event, you knew it was going to happen (despite perhaps your prayers that it wouldn't) and sure enough the Kurt Cobain movie is in the works. Universal Pictures has hired David Benioff (WOLVERINE) to write a script based on the Cobain biography "Heavier Than Heaven." As expected Courtney Love will executive produce though no word on the involvement of former Nirvanaers Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl who aren't exactly chums with the former Mrs. Cobain. Interestingly enough, the film will be produced by Ben Silverman, newly crowned NBC wunderkind/chairman, who set up the film before leaving to run the network. Neither Silverman or Universal would discuss whether they, in addition to securing rights to Cobain's life story, have the rights to Nirvana's music. After all, both Novoselic and Grohl have a say in where and how their music is used. OK so now we get to have a little bit of fun: who plays Kurt? Michael Pitt played a Cobainlike character in Gus Van Sant's LAST DAYS and did a pretty bang-up job. But who would YOU cast in the big-budget, official biopic?
| Extra Tidbit: | Kurt Cobain was listed as No. 12 on Rolling Stones Top 100 Greatest Guitarists. |
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| Source: | Variety |
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About a Son...
All the images in the film are places Kurt grew up or liked. The soundtrack is the music Kurt loved...NOT Nirvana music.
The film is basically on tour, stopping in larger towns for a 2-week run in each. I'm going to
All the images in the film are places Kurt grew up or liked. The soundtrack is the music Kurt loved...NOT Nirvana music.
The film is basically on tour, stopping in larger towns for a 2-week run in each. I'm going to go see it in Nashville at the Belcourt Nov. 2.
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Eh...
On another note though, I think Ben Foster would be great in this. I've liked him in every movie he was in, and his characters are usually on the odd side anyway. In 30
On another note though, I think Ben Foster would be great in this. I've liked him in every movie he was in, and his characters are usually on the odd side anyway. In 30 days he even kind of looked like a Coobain that had a really really shitty week.
I'll agree
That being said, Cobain is deserving of his own biopic at some point in time because you cannot point to a single person in the past 20-30 years who had a singular impact on the face of music as Cobain did.
That being said, Cobain is deserving of his own biopic at some point in time because you cannot point to a single person in the past 20-30 years who had a singular impact on the face of music as Cobain did. When Nirvana hit the scene it effectively killed off an entire genre of music (glam/hair metal) and transformed the music scene entirely.
You don't have to like Nirvana or Cobain to at least be able to acknowledge that.
As far as disliking Cobain partially because one girl overreacted at a Weird Al show... whatever.
A little to soon.
With that said. I think this movie is way too soon. Like someone else said. Wait about 20 years.
With that said. I think this movie is way too soon. Like someone else said. Wait about 20 years.
This movie...
i went and saw weird al once, cause i enjoy humor. haha
anyways, i was there, enjoying him. and he came out dressed as Kurt Cobain for when he played Smells Like Nirvana. good song, very funny. well...to me.
at any rate, the girl i was with started bawling....because Al resembeled Cobain. she wouldnt stop crying, because shes never gonna get to see him. the fact that anyone with as little talent as Cobain could have THAT
i went and saw weird al once, cause i enjoy humor. haha
anyways, i was there, enjoying him. and he came out dressed as Kurt Cobain for when he played Smells Like Nirvana. good song, very funny. well...to me.
at any rate, the girl i was with started bawling....because Al resembeled Cobain. she wouldnt stop crying, because shes never gonna get to see him. the fact that anyone with as little talent as Cobain could have THAT effect on a girl at a WEIRD AL concert just irritates me.
I'd cut off my pinky toe for an A-list biopic on Wu-Tang Clan. but thats just me.
My only objection to what Todd is saying is you can detect the hate in his tone. he HATES Cobain like he stole his woman or something.
Is a dead rocker worth hating?
I'd cut off my pinky toe for an A-list biopic on Wu-Tang Clan. but thats just me.
My only objection to what Todd is saying is you can detect the hate in his tone. he HATES Cobain like he stole his woman or something.
Is a dead rocker worth hating?
im just really interested in his story.
i just really dont like Kurt Cobain. haha
im just really interested in his story.
i just really dont like Kurt Cobain. haha
i can see how ray charles and johnny cash deserve to have their own biopics, as they are both greatly known and internationally popular (i really dont listen to either). i dont think ian curtis is as popular as fans may assume. so i dont see how ian curtis is any more deserving of a biopic when curt cobain obviously has a larger fanbase. plus, i hate joy division. *just my own opinion*
i dont
i can see how ray charles and johnny cash deserve to have their own biopics, as they are both greatly known and internationally popular (i really dont listen to either). i dont think ian curtis is as popular as fans may assume. so i dont see how ian curtis is any more deserving of a biopic when curt cobain obviously has a larger fanbase. plus, i hate joy division. *just my own opinion*
i dont really listen to nirvana all that much, but i know their music quite well, and i can tell you that its a much better listen than anything that JD has produced. Listening to Curtis' voice cause discomfort to my soul. But I do give my respects to him, im not trying to insult a dead guy.
just my own opinion.
just my own opinion.
hurt me all you want.
ray charles, johnny cash, ian curtis, and most of the other biopics as of late are deserving. i find these guys to be real musicians. not hacks like kurt cobain, the only good thing to come out of nirvana was dave grohl who has more talent in his pinky finger than cobain had in all of his body.
hurt me all you want.
ray charles, johnny cash, ian curtis, and most of the other biopics as of late are deserving. i find these guys to be real musicians. not hacks like kurt cobain, the only good thing to come out of nirvana was dave grohl who has more talent in his pinky finger than cobain had in all of his body.
Now as for the movie itself: I'm not sure if it should be made. Not unless it shows him getting murdered, and not doing THREE TIMES the overdose amount of heroin and somehow still managing to sit on a chair and hold a shotgun all on his own.
Now as for the movie itself: I'm not sure if it should be made. Not unless it shows him getting murdered, and not doing THREE TIMES the overdose amount of heroin and somehow still managing to sit on a chair and hold a shotgun all on his own.
get brad pitt to play kurt, has the same face.
get brad pitt to play kurt, has the same face.
One thing I do know, Kurt Cobain would HATE this movie.
One thing I do know, Kurt Cobain would HATE this movie.
biopics are for real musicians.
biopics are for real musicians.