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BEHIND
THE SCENES
WHO COULD PLAY
KURT COBAIN? SOME
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Actors like Ryan
Gosling, Robert Pattinson,
Ewan McGregor and Jared
Leto have been mentioned
as possible onscreen
incarnations of Cobain.”
former Boardwalk Empire star Michael Pitt),
the Nirvana frontman has been kept off the
big screen. With ’90s nostalgia in bloom,
however, thanks to multiple boy band reunions and addictive reminders of the decade
from websites like BuzzFeed, is the time right
for Kurt Cobain: The Movie?
Cobain would have turned 46 on Feb. 20,
2012; he was 27 when he shot himself in his
Seattle home. That means a Kurt Cobain movie
could provide Hollywood’s budding leading men
with the type of opportunity usually only reserved for superhero films and sci-fi blockbusters: The chance at playing the role of a lifetime.
In the past, actors like Ryan Gosling, Robert
Pattinson, Ewan McGregor and Jared Leto have
been mentioned as possible onscreen incarnations of Cobain; Courtney Love, the singer’s
former girlfriend, who had a child with Cobain,
reportedly wanted Gosling for the role. The
charismatic star is now 32, however, and with
no Kurt Cobain movie on the horizon in the
near future, he’ll be aged out of consideration
by the time the project actually moves forward.
Moving forward, incidentally, has been the
RYAN
GOSLING, 32
Courtney
Love’s choice
is probably
too old to play
Cobain, who
died when he
was 27.
MICHAEL PITT, 31
Pitt played the sort-of Cobain in Gus
Van Sant’s Last Days. Why not let
him turn the trick for real?
EMILE HIRSCH, 28
Hirsch turned 28 this week, but
he’s got the look and intensity
to play Cobain onscreen. Bonus
points awarded because of his
relationship with Sean Penn (the
pair made Into the Wild together),
who could maybe get wrangled
into directing this movie.