Ok, let’s call this what it is, more catch up from when we were gone.
Courtney Love Sells Biopic With Nirvana Music
Ok, so the good news about the upcoming Kurt Cobain/Nirvana biopic that’s being executive-produced by Courtney Love is that it will feature the music of Nirvana. Apparently when Universal bought the rights to Charles R Cross’ Cobain biography, ‘Heavier Than Heaven,’ they purchased a combination of both the book rights and the rights to Nirvana’s music, as put together by Courtney Love, who owns the rights to the music. “Courtney Love has packaged my book rights with Nirvana’s music,” Cross told the NME. “It’s important, as for it to be a definitive Kurt biopic you need the music.” [NME]
Speaking of, anyone remember “Highway“? Originally titled “A Leonard Cohen Afterworld” (a lyric from the Nirvana song “Pennyroyal Tea“), the film was about despondent fans who take a pilgrimage to Seattle for Cobain’s memorial after his suicide. It starred Jared Leto, Jake Gyllenhall and Salma Blair and went straight to video in 2002 (we believe it was supposed to come out a year or more earlier and then got stuck in limbo and then belatedly dumped onto DVD if memory serves correctly). It was supposed to feature covers of Nirvana songs (which would’ve probably been done by jokers like Third Eye Blind or some shit), but eventually just had songs by the Screeching Weasels, Queens of the Stone Age, Desert Sessions, Fu Manchu and other non-Nirvana songs. We never saw it, but we remember the anticipation surrounding it when it was first announced at the beginning of this decade.
Anyone ever dare rent this thing? We can’t claim we had the balls to do so.