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They told me, ‘We
cannot support [your]
wildly independent
and unconventional
approach to this movie.’”
problem with the Kurt Cobain movie. The idea
of a biopic about the Nirvana singer has been
floating around since 2007. At one point, Oren
Moverman was attached to write and direct,
but the script he turned in was apparently too
offbeat for his bosses at Universal to accept.
“They told me, ‘We cannot support [your]
wildly independent and unconventional approach to this movie,’” Moverman, who directed the 2009 drama The Messenger, told
The Playlist in 2011. According to the director, the script (titled This Is Gonna Suck)
would have tracked the last seven years of
Cobain’s life, but did not include his suicide.
“This is a guy who thought he sucked, but
occasionally thought he was brilliant too,”
Moverman said of the screenplay. “The film
would have been fragmented, but also examined what made him tick.” Love was apparently a big fan of Moverman’s work.
As for casting, the writer-director had
considered Ben Foster, who starred in The
Messenger, for Cobain. “Ben was definitely
on my mind for the part. He’s the actor of
his generation,” he said.
For her part, Love has apparently shifted away
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, 32
Like Gosling, Gordon-Levitt is
perhaps too old to play Cobain,
but he’s got experience playing
grunge-y rock types from Hesher
and would give the film an immediate stamp of hipster approval.
DOMHNALL
GLEESON, 29
The former
Harry Potter
star is an upand-comer
who deserves
leading man
consideration after his tortured
and romantic performance in
Anna Karenina.
ANTON YELCHIN, 23
Finally, a young actor under 27 with
gravitas to play Cobain. Yelchin —
who has experience with indies (Like
Crazy) and blockbusters (Star Trek)
— would almost be the ideal choice
to play the late singer, if not for …