Brace yourselves: Decisions are finally being made about the Kurt Cobain biopic that has been in talks since 2007. The Hollywood Reporter announced yesterday that Oren Moverman (Oscar-nominated director of The Messenger) is set to write and direct the film based on Charles R. Cross’ 2002 biography Heavier Than Heaven. The pic will focus on Cobain’s life, music, and suicide, and we’ve heard rumors of everyone from James Franco to Ewan McGregor as possible stars.
Although we’re intrigued, we can’t say we’re exactly thrilled by the news. Let’s explore our trepidations after the jump.
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In Oren Moverman’s superb directorial debut, two US veterans take on the grimmest of duties: delivering news of the deceased to their next of kin.
For Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson, this operation is a sort of hereafter; Foster is a hero back from the current mire in Iraq, while Harrelson was a soldier during the first. Together, they brave reactions from relatives and loved ones that scale the emotional range. Still, a friendship comes out of the grief and, against procedure, Foster falls for the newly widowed Samantha Morton. Politics aside, The Messenger offers a sober, personal, and thoroughly compassionate portrait of what’s left after the postwar narcotic of anger passes.
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