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How to Milk a Dead Cow: Courtney Love Makes Progress with Cobain Biopic

Submitted by greekdevils

Edited by erin_broadley

Tags: nirvana, kurt cobain.



For those of us who saw director Gus Van Sant's Last Days under the assumption that it was about Kurt Cobain, get prepared for a slap in the face with the first authorized movie about the lead singer.

[Courtney] Love has acquired the rights to Heavier Than Heaven, author Charles Cross' biography on the late grunge singer, a source close to the star told Access. According to our source, several studios are in discussions with Love to bring the book to the big screen.


Most book-to-movie deals don't usually follow the script of the actual book. Can anyone really imagine a film that satisfies both the corporate groundhogs and the artistic integrity of a musician such as Cobain? But then again, many wonder as to whether or not Love even cares about preserving the integrety of her late husband. I'm just as guilty as the next hardcore Nirvana fan for racing to the store to snatch-up the box set. Yet I have a genuine, sinking suspicion that Cobain probably wouldn't want me listening to the music thats on those discs, let alone watch a movie based on a biography he didn't approve of.

Ewan McGregor is Love's first choice to play her late husband in the film.

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OffBroadway

OffBroadway

Vancouver, BC
September 2004

JAN 23, 2007 06:28 PM

How else is a sloppy old twunt like Courtney going to score with Ewan McGregor? You go girl.

Pilkington

Pilkington

USA
October 2005

JAN 23, 2007 08:01 PM

Slinky_J said:
Ewan McGregor? Oh for fuck's sake.



+1

I thought the SAME EXACT thing after reading that.

SteelRabbit

SteelRabbit

Vancouver, BC
December 2006

JAN 23, 2007 08:32 PM

OH. MY. GOD!

What happened Courtney? Run out of your childs things to pawn for burbon? I can't believe that they're doing a narritave movie on Kurt Cobain's life, for any other musician I could give a shit (I've never seen a biopic based off a musician's life anyways), but HIS?! Ugh...

dead_angel_girl

dead_angel_girl

Canada
October 2006

JAN 23, 2007 09:33 PM

waxangel said:
Last Days was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. This can only be better.



My gawd was it ever. it was like oh my god. please end. is it ending... when will it end. And then it did and I was like thats it? that didn't even show anything!!!!!!!!

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

USA
December 2005

JAN 23, 2007 10:49 PM

MrCrisp said:
does love make a cameo at the end? wink


oh, burn!

aegies

aegies

Oakland, CA
June 2004

JAN 23, 2007 11:01 PM

brilliantbeast said:

Slinky_J said:
Ewan McGregor? Oh for fuck's sake.



+1

I thought the SAME EXACT thing after reading that.





you were saying? The casting is fucking perfect.

sperkins

sperkins

I'm lost
November 2006

JAN 24, 2007 12:09 AM

I loved cobain's music. i loved hole.

let them just make their own art and their own money from it.

history can wait.

to quote: "entertain us!"

-- sperkins

sperkins

sperkins

I'm lost
November 2006

JAN 24, 2007 12:14 AM

from my 1978 high school yearbook:


zoom image

PsychoSwtchblade

PsychoSwtchblade

Ortonville, MI
August 2005

JAN 24, 2007 02:30 AM

phirephli said:
same people getting mad about this biopic probably rushed out to watch the johnny cash one and shot praises up his corpses ass about how great it was... let the movie be made who cares... skull



There's only one problem with this one...June Carter hasnt been hoeing out her husband since his death and Johnny Cash was in control of most things for his movie until he died. He even picked Jaoquin Phoenix. But phirephil is right its gonna get made either way the only thing we can do as a public is critisize it. That we can do at least....

dufsmashXIII

dufsmashXIII

Eureka, IL
December 2005

JAN 24, 2007 04:50 AM

i'm not surprised by this whatever i bet it makes a TON of cash.

mingol

mingol

Singapore
July 2005

JAN 24, 2007 05:47 AM

PsychoSwtchblade said:
June Carter hasnt been hoeing out her husband since his death...



That's probably because she died four months before he did.

Still, point taken.

Captain_Midnight

Captain_Midnight

Minneapolis, MN
September 2006

JAN 24, 2007 05:51 AM

I just wonder how much longer she can ride on her late husband's coattails, and use his name to make her more money. Its not that I don't think that a movie about him wouldn't be interesting (although he did live a pretty typical junkie's life, when I compare it to junkies I've known personally), but I think that Courtney does all of this for the wrong reasons.

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

JAN 24, 2007 05:57 AM

Holdin said:
There is no one who could play Kurt Cobain anyways!



What?! surreal

Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

You were...what...NINE when Cobain died?

Cash

Cash

USA
OLD SKOOL

JAN 24, 2007 05:59 AM

PsychoSwtchblade said:
There's only one problem with this one...June Carter hasnt been hoeing out her husband since his death ....



Ummmm.....June died BEFORE Johnny, professor.

soft_shoulder

soft_shoulder

Madison, WI
May 2006

JAN 24, 2007 06:14 AM

lila_says said:

rya said:
From Jedi To Junkie? Good grief.



umm... his breakout role was a junkie. Trainspotting anyone?

not that i care so much but yeah..... jedi, really....



my thought exactly
junkie to jedi to junkie full circle!
i think she wants ewan for seduction purposes.....

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