Cortney Love handpicks cast for Kurt Cobain biopic
Posted by Matt Holmes
UPDATE: Post corrected after I pictured Ryan Reynolds instead of Ryan Gosling!
Universal’s Kurt Cobain biopic HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN has not yet found a cast or director (WOLVERINE scribe David Benioff is currently working on the script) but Courtney Love has made it pretty clear exactly who she wants to cast as herself and her ex-lover.
And her choices and suggestions do carry some weight, because she just happens to be executive producing. Love tells The Mirror that she wants the voluptuous actress and friend Scarlett Johansson to play herself with the uber-talented Ryan Gosling playing Cobain.
To be fair to the Love, she might be onto something with Gosling. His work in HALF NELSON and THE NOTEBOOK hint at a real star actor in the making and a performance of a lifetime as Cobain would be something I would pay double to see.
But with Love’s very close involvement he would probably be wise to stay away from the picture and I think he probably will, along with many of the other actors that Love wants for the movie. Johansson too is likely to distance herself from the movie just as she is for Jenna Jameson, who also wants the beauty to play her in a biopic.
It’s just too much of a career risk, unless that Benioff script is red-hot (unlikely after his WOLVERINE attempt).
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Sorry but you seem to have some confusion between Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds.
Damn actors with similar looks and names. lol.
As a Nirvana fan, I’m not optimistic. If Courtney has such creative control, this will most likely be a severely skew-whiff, distorted biopic that will attempt to encourage Courtney’s own take on events and further add to the mad mythologising surrounding Kurt. The man deserves better…