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Courtney Love to Executive Produce (Another) Drama About Kurt Cobain’s Last Days

10/19/07, 10:21 am EST


Universal Pictures and 25th Hour screenwriter David Benioff are getting to work on Last Days an untitled drama about the life of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Courtney Love, whose criteria when picking projects dealing with her dead husband’s legacy is usually incredibly stringent, will serve as executive producer. The script will adapt Charles Cross’ 2001 biography Heavier Than Heaven, which included accounts gleaned from Cobain’s unpublished journals as well as information from Cobain’s family and friends. This news comes nearly two weeks after About A Son — a Cobain documentary that utilizes interview excerpts — and Control, about the life and suicide of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, hit theaters. We assume an Elliott Smith script is being Fed-Exed overnight to Paramount as we type. So far, music rights have not been secured, but with Love in the exec. producer’s chair, that shouldn’t be a problem. Casting hasn’t begun yet either, but we recommend this guy, considering he did such a great job the first time around.


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Larry | 10/19/2007, 10:29 am EST

Ugh! Cobain is dead! Get over it! Who friggin cares! He wasn’t that great!

Monsieur | 10/19/2007, 12:06 pm EST

Yeah Pitt deserves it.
Now im waiting for all the Depp fans to come over and say oh he should play Cobain, Richards, Jagger, Morrison in biopics.

Dylan | 10/19/2007, 12:12 pm EST

So Courtney needs a new boob job?
Or just some more dough to live on,huh?
No surprise here…..

Raping his corpse for cash works much better for her than any music she releases herself anyway.

fister | 10/19/2007, 1:02 pm EST

Larry, you’re a moron.

Seth | 10/19/2007, 1:12 pm EST

I don’t want this movie made, but since I have no say, my pick to play Kurt would be Emile Hirsch. He’s got the acting chops and he kinda resembled Cobain in “Lords of Dogtown.”

Good Point | 10/19/2007, 1:40 pm EST

Ok So if anyone should play this role, agreeing on the movie being made or not, it should be Joe Anderson hands fucking down. He’s the blond dude that looks like Kurt’s twin in Across the universe. Go here and check it out,

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1 725848/

I swear, no one else could possibly look more like Cobain

Good Point | 10/19/2007, 1:45 pm EST

nm just forget it

GoodbyeKitty™ | 10/19/2007, 1:51 pm EST

It’s not wise for the corporate movie makers to mess around with the spirit. This is sad news.

Sanchez | 10/19/2007, 2:15 pm EST

Its kind of dumb, right? I mean its like watching Flight 93, you know how it ends…I’ll remember the music, not how Heroin turns you into a pants shitting paranoid hermit.

Nordling | 10/19/2007, 2:50 pm EST

I agree with the Emile Hirsch casting. He’s brilliant in INTO THE WILD.

jungleland | 10/19/2007, 3:14 pm EST

Love his music, have ZERO interest in seeing a movie with an actor playing him. That said, I do plan to see About A Son.

can’t anyone learn from John Lennon’s Imagine. They told the story with his own words, music and pictures….and it still stands up 20 years later.

whatever | 10/19/2007, 4:16 pm EST

ok Larry, Kurt Cobain was the single most greatest fucking musician in the world, and I for one am happy that so many people remember him, what pisses me off is that courtney love has anything to do with this movie, believe what you will but Courtney Love is a KILLER. any true nirvana fan knows this.

I wonder if she’ll put in the parts where she murdered the greatest man in rock n roll?

supersonic | 10/19/2007, 4:58 pm EST

“ok Larry, Kurt Cobain was the single most greatest fucking musician in the world”

Get the f*** out of here! You CAN’T be serious. Lay off the crack pipe. It’s seriously f***ng up your judgment!!!!!!!

supersonic | 10/19/2007, 4:59 pm EST

what happened to her face??? the wicked witch of the west is MELTING!!!!!!!

supersonic | 10/19/2007, 6:21 pm EST

“I wonder if she’ll put in the parts where she murdered the greatest man in rock n roll?”

paranoia, they destroy ya
paranoia, they destroy ya
paranoia, they destroy ya
paranoia, they destroy ya (and it goes like this)

Dan | 10/19/2007, 7:52 pm EST

What else can Courtney do these days anyway?. Her own career is kaput, and she still can`t get her comeback CD released.These days all she does is go to parties and fashion events to be photographed and get her inevitable red carpet interview.Her 15 minutes of fame have been stretched out to 18 minutes now.

Roirock | 10/19/2007, 8:29 pm EST

I´m the number one Nirvana fan all over this fucking world and I like Hole and Courtney too!! So why hells all of you think that this is not possible??? They both were singers, guitars and grunge… so who is able to find a wife who match better with him? There’s no one.. We will never know what would happen Kurt If he’ve never been with Courtney, but I´m sure she isn’t a murder…

lacapa | 10/20/2007, 12:51 am EST

hello ,well i like the work of kurt cobain did in his past life but his wife is very bad about kurt’life.i think she has troubles whit the money because,she does not known to do whit kurt cobain ‘life.she only thinks in make money whit his death.i think nirvana was a great band of rock and roll but courtney is a crazy girl and indecent,is beatiful but a fool woman.

But Officer, I'M INNOCENT!!! | 10/20/2007, 2:21 am EST

there’s nothing worse to read than reading someone who can’t write pretending they can’t write.

jeff | 10/20/2007, 3:02 am EST

for all of you who think courtney murdered kurt…research and look up the several pr photos he did in the nineties with a SHOTGUN IN HIS MOUTH.

I think her past 10 yrs. are pretty easy to understand when your realize everyone was accusing her of murdering him after he was gone. She DID lose her husband, after all.

supersonic | 10/20/2007, 3:28 am EST

i don’t think she killed him. i do think she drove him fuckin’ crazy, though.

supersonic | 10/20/2007, 3:30 am EST

holy shit. nobody’s going to remember this. i barely do. but there was this guy named senor wenses who used to do this comedy routine with this sock puppet. courtney, looks just like the sock puppet!!!

mike | 10/20/2007, 1:16 pm EST

courtney didn’t produce Last Days, or executive produce it for that matter, so i don’t get the snarky “(Another)” in the headline. “Heavier than Heaven” is a great AUTHORIZED biography of Kurt so i think it’ll be a good basis for the film, and god forbid his wife and mother of his child have a say in it.

lady penny lane | 10/21/2007, 1:17 am EST

heavier than heaven is about kurt’s life according to courtney so i really don’t believe the whole book!!

Cheesecrop | 10/21/2007, 6:50 am EST

I like Nirvana, but the word overkill is starting to come to mind in regards to these projects.

boscoden | 10/22/2007, 12:41 am EST

Kurt Cobain’s lyrics seem so disjointed and strange; then something happens in my life and one of his lyrics is just so appropriate and it all starts to make sense. It’s just so visceral.

ramona | 10/22/2007, 10:55 am EST

love(d) Courtney when she was a fierce feminist rocker girl. she did NOT kill Kurt but i do think she has an iron fist when it comes to his legacy and i don’t think she lets the whole truth be told–she knows how to manipulate the legend for her own purposes. you can’t believe anything you read or see anymore.

Dawnna | 10/22/2007, 11:03 am EST

1st off, I fully agree with ‘Good
Point’ > his comment about WHO should play Kirk-{Joe Anderson} IS
right on the money! Ya gotta SEE this guy- if you don’t know who he is, go to the link he specifies..
(*Having no freakin’ idea WHO J.A. was, I went to the link he gave, which BTW: Brings up Fred Astaire!!
LOL!!!) >so type in Joe Anderson!> & then you’ll SEE what’s up. And another BTW: IF Courtney Love is a
damn MURDERER~ WHY didn’t she get arrested? Gimme a break~ She loved
the guy~ & it was OBVIOUS he had big time ANXIETY over the whole
‘being famous’ idealogy… IF any1
should be informed enough to be executive Producer, it certainly should be Courtney. “You don’t know
how she feels”… ! GAWD, people are soooo damn cynical, bias, & judgemental. No one really knows a damn thing about her, & as for ‘Sanchez’ comment: “Heroin turns you into a pants shitting paranoid hermit”… LOL! Who died
& made YOU the Authority about Heroin? You KNOW nota! Being ‘paranoid’ is not one of Heroin’s ’side effects’, thats the
infamous Speed,meth,crank,etc. You
are ALL so misinformed~ Jeez, some
of you need to install ’spell check’ some of ya’ll need to SHUT THE F UP! Some of ya, like ‘Good Point’ need to make a Good Point &
stop writing into [a Reputable & newsworthy Mag like Rolling Stones]
online posting area. OK, Long winded, but HAD to say these things! Laterzzz! *Dawnna*

The Professor | 10/22/2007, 6:09 pm EST

Dawnna or Buwanna or whatever… you are an asshat !

TOM | 10/22/2007, 7:19 pm EST

Please explain this people. When Kurt “shot himself” with the shotgun the back of his head did not blow off. Nothing!!!That is a medical impossibility. He put the shotgun in his mouth! I am not saying Courtney murdered him but I think foul play was involved. Very easy to set up a guy who is known to be depressed.

donald | 10/25/2007, 7:04 pm EST

Larry go fuck yourself!

Anonymous | 10/27/2007, 4:49 pm EST

OMG Joe Anderson would be soooo perfect to play kurt cobain!!!! he looksso much like him and has an amazing voice which sounds like his!!! holy crap when i saw this guy i totally thought he could play the role one day

Lisha | 10/29/2007, 10:39 pm EST

courtney, courtney, courtney…

there were so many ways that would have been better than this.

about the actor: that guy is soo freaking hot.

Britney Lover | 10/30/2007, 9:38 pm EST

Who cares about courtney ?? shes old and ugly..Did anyone get the new Britney cd ?? It`s her best yet .Brit really put her heart and soul into this new disc . The beats rock and her voice is so super sexy ..the way she ooohs and aahhh so so sexy and hot. And the lyrics are very personal and show what she been going thru as only a true superstar can . She has really pushed the envelope with this one . A Fantastic piece of work..We love you Britney !!!

Lauren | 11/24/2007, 3:59 pm EST

If Courtney Love is the executive producer, then it’s going to be a ‘Courtney Friendly’ movie & i dont think it will be worth watching. It will not be the truth. Courtney Love needs to ‘commit suicide’. I really do hate her.

Lauren | 11/24/2007, 3:59 pm EST

If Courtney Love is the executive producer, then it’s going to be a ‘Courtney Friendly’ movie & i dont think it will be worth watching. It will not be the truth. Courtney Love needs to ‘commit suicide’. I really do hate her.

Holy Polly | 12/18/2007, 1:09 pm EST

Fuk you ALL who can allow yourself to say anything bad about Courtney! She’s the best! The best rockstar, the best actress,the best woman! She’s stronger then anybody! I shoked by so stupid ppl like BritneyLover! Nobody can be compared with Courney! She’s the one!

Izzy | 2/9/2008, 4:33 pm EST

Screw u all if u say anything bad about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. They started a damned culture. Courtney Love does not deserve to executive produce anything that has anything to do with Kurt and Nirvana, she killed him. She totally does not deserve this oppurtunity. That bitch should just crawl in a corner and cry herself ugly self to sleep because of what she did.

matt | 4/28/2009, 9:58 pm EST

I allready know it’s gonna be a piece of shit they will never tell the fuckin truth about what happend to that guy. Even if he did kill him self theres something missing people using his credit card after he’s dead, I mean what the fuck he is no different than jim Morrison or Jimi or janis jopplin in the sense that they all asudenly emerged changed the fuckin world and died. they were all ahead of their time and I don’t give a fuck what any body says early 1990s music was he last decent music to come out and the best of it was Seatlle bands like Nirvana that just took over I mean even micheal Jackson as popular as he was by the end of the 1980s he was on top of the fuckin world, and cobain removed the crown right from his head.But all in all even if he was to be still allive today it wouldn’t matter in the sense that he allredy wanted to quit Nirvana since after Nevermind was made. that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t of created a great solo album or teamed up wth new people or anything but it’s just a tragedy. I don’t give a fuck what anybody thinks, fuckin nigger rap has been the most popular shit since early 2000 and it still is and one day there will be a new person to rise and clear out all this fuckin bullshit nigger rap and there will be the next american icon to rise and ps. fuck britney spears and courtney love and anybody who doesn’t like Nirvana Suck My Dick!!!

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