Huffington Magazine Issue 40 | Page 84

BEHIND THE SCENES Exit HUFFINGTON 03.17.13 Kurt Cobain: The Movie. Will It Ever Happen? FRANK MICELOTTA/GETTY IMAGES BY CHRISTOPHER ROSEN S INCE KURT COBAIN committed suicide on April 5, 1994, Hollywood studios have released rock biopics based on the lives of Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Ian Curtis, Notorious B.I.G. and Bobby Darin — and yet not Cobain. Save for Last Days, Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film about a singer not unlike Cobain (played by Kurt Cobain performs with Nirvana at a taping of MTV Unplugged on Nov. 18, 1993.