What? Another Kurt Cobain documentary? Didn’t “Kurt Cobain: About A Son” just come out? Yes, but this one seems vastly different (it won’t have very-pleased with himself AJ Schnack as the director for one)
“Courtney Love sort of sanctioned me to do. And we’ll probably start that sometime this year. The Kurt Cobain film I want to start in the next few months, but I think it’s going to take 3 or 4 years to make,” he told the website.
A big coup is the fact, Morgan says he’ll rights to Nirvana music and rare Cobain home movies.
“Yeah. It’s more than that. It’s all of Kurt’s artifacts and archives and journals and yeah we’ll have the music of course but the…his home movies. He did stop action animation, which I don’t know if anyone’s ever seen but I saw it and it’s fucking great. I mean it was crude and I’m gonna probably refine it, you know, in a way, I mean some of his stuff was out of focus or whatever—like unintentionally out of focus but we’re going to make a film as if Kurt Cobain was making his autobiography.”
Morgan says he’ll basically use every animation trick in the book and Cobain’s crude home-made footage to tell his story.
“Ultimately I think the goal for that film is to make sort of a ‘Catcher on the Rye’ for the next decade. The reason Kurt still resonates all over the world – he was able to articulate his experiences as an alienated, disenfranchised kid and that’s why I think his music is still relevant… I think what this film will do is really get inside Kurt’s head and sort of see the world from the inside out. It’s going to be like this 3 dimensional visceral sort of sublime movie.”
“The Kid Stays In The Picture” was great, so we’re actually looking forward to seeing this one actually happen, but like he said, it’ll be a few years off. bruary Morgan’s newest film “Chicago 10,” another animated/mixed-media documentary about the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968 hits theaters on February 29.