Twenty years after his death, Kurt Cobain is finally getting his first fully authorized documentary. The film, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, is being made by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen, who last tackled the Rolling Stones in his 2012 rock documentary Crossfire Hurricane. Unlike previous films made about the Nirvana front man, this project, which has been in the works since 2007, has the support of Cobain’s family, who gave Morgen “unprecedented access to Cobain's archives, including never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos and songbooks.”
The family is so supportive of the project, in fact, that Cobain’s 22-year-old daughter, visual artist Frances Bean Cobain, is attached as an executive producer.
In a statement, Morgen told The Hollywood Reporter, “I started work on this project eight years ago . . . Like most people, when I started, I figured there would be limited amounts of fresh material to unearth. However, once I stepped into Kurt’s archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased music and audio, a vast array of art projects—oil paintings, sculptures—countless hours of never-before-seen home movies, and over 4,000 pages of writings that together help paint an intimate portrait of an artist who rarely revealed himself to the media.”
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck will premiere on HBO in 2015 before receiving a theatrical roll-out the following year.
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