OK, earlier right now, you in all probability learn from us that Courtney Love was fired from “Fight Club.” The rocker, singer, actress, and former member of grunge band Hole claims she had the lead position of Marla Singer within the David Fincher movie (the half that Helen Bonham Carter performed). But throughout this casting course of, she apparently went “nuclear” on Brad Pitt for proposing he star in a Kurt Cobain movie directed by Gus Van Sant, after which Pitt received her fired from the movie (“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” Love mentioned. “I don’t do Faust. Who the fuck do you think are?”).
Love claimed that Pitt’s been making an attempt to make a Kurt Cobain film for many years. “My friend Cameron Crowe [told me] Brad Pitt was put on this earth to stalk you for Kurt, which has been going on since ’96,” she maintained.
But with time and distance, Love has modified her thoughts. In the late aughts, circa 2010, filmmaker Oren Moverman (“Time Out of Mind”) got here shut to creating a Kurt Cobain movie within the early 2000s. He was officially in talks at one level—Love was on board as a result of she has to approve all this stuff— and he wrote a screenplay. But the filmmaker informed us in a 2011 interview that he ultimately left the undertaking. Moverman, who already wrote uncommon, and form-busting rock biopic screenplays for Bob Dylan (“I’m Not There”) and Beach Boys’ singer Brian Wilson (“Love & Mercy”)— mentioned the script was “deeply unconventional,” the studio handed on it. Love was “heartbroken” when he left the undertaking (learn that complete interview right here).
We digress. Love clearly desires to make a Kurt Cobain movie now and mentioned she has the right filmmaker in Todd Phillips, however he ultimately handed. Love first revealed {that a} documentary about her is being made—seemingly not a standard cradle-to-grave one and extra in regards to the making of her upcoming document—after which segued into her Todd Phillips story, apparently loving him for a lot of of his works, however primarily what he and Joaquin Phoenix did on “Joker.”
“I wanted Todd Phillips to do [the] Kurt [Cobain] movie,” she mentioned. “I felt like if anybody could handle Kurt, if he could handle Joaquin in that f*cking situation and not die, either of them…[then he could handle the Cobain movie].”
“I bugged him about doing Kurt; I didn’t feel like anybody else [could do it]. Him I trust,” she continued. “He thought about it, he really did, but I can’t compete with Joaquin [and ‘Joker 2’]. Anyway, he was incredibly considerate. But he said, ‘I don’t have the bandwidth.’”
Love additionally mentioned she requested Phillips to supply the Cobain movie, however he got here up with the identical reply: not sufficient bandwidth. She did say that Phillips would govt produce her upcoming documentary, in order that’s one thing no less than.
Later within the podcast, Love, she named dropped Warner Bros. chiefs Michael DeLuca and Pam Abdy because the pair she would make the movie with. Phillips clearly already has a house at Warner Bros. along with his “Joker” movie and the “Hangover” trilogy, so it appears like if/when Love does make that, it’ll be arrange at WB.
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