Courtney Love Eyes Johansson, Gosling for 'Heaven'
Last year, Courtney Love announced that she would move forward with plans to turn Charles R. Cross' Kurt Cobain biography, 'Heavier Than Heaven,' into a feature film. And it seems plans are moving along nicely ... and very much according to her plan.
With Universal Studios behind the project and Love, who was nominated for Best Actress at the 1996 Golden Globes for her role in 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' playing the part of executive producer, the film is in good structural shape, but its principal players have yet to be decided. Until now.
While rumors that Kirsten Dunst and Ewan McGregor were up for the challenge of playing the modern day Sid and Nancy, it seems that Love has had a change of heart . The Mirror reports that Love reached out to Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Gosling to fill the roles in this film, which she calls a "labor of love." "She is putting her heart and soul into making [the movie] an accurate, credible glimpse of her life with Kurt," a source told the Mirror.
Reader Comments(1 of 2)
Black centuryat 1-18-2008
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jamie p.at 1-21-2008
Who cares about washed up cokeheads?
lisaat 1-21-2008
I think Scarlett and Ryan are a perfect choice. They'll totally become Courtney and Kurt!
Even though I think she's a disaster, I think this will be an amazing film. Love was great in "Larry F". She's got talent for acting(not a fan of her singing though)
I bet it'll be as good as "Walk the Line", and "Ray"
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susanat 1-21-2008
I had to laugh when I read this one.. does Courtney Love really think that she and Scarlett Johansson look alike.. They are MILES apart!!
Mikeat 1-21-2008
Are you seriously kidding me? A wharf prostitute would be "too good" to be that thing.
K.A.at 1-21-2008
Considering her money troubles,it's to her credit she has not allowed a slew of Nirvana movies. She could have cashed in years ago.
Karen Lynnat 1-21-2008
It's about time, I wish her good luck.
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Jackieat 1-21-2008
I think Scarlett Johansson looks more like Brigitte Nielsen than Courtney Love especially from that picture
Jenniferat 1-21-2008
What does posting desperate dating site comments have to do with this article? So ANNOYING...and pathetic!
Caseyat 1-21-2008
What a crock. Why should these two idiots have a movie made about them? About as pointless as the movie "Sid and Nancy". Snooze fest.
Synat 1-21-2008
If I were as ugly as Courtney, I would Crwal back under my rock and never come back out!!! She should leave the acting and the singing to the real pro's!!!
margaretat 1-21-2008
Dont you wish we could all be drug addicts and make money - unbelieveable some of the things these movie stars get away with. I got a ticket for driving a lttle fast on the highway first ticket ever in 20+ years of driving. First time driving alone on the highway following the speed of others - I get stopped thrown in jail ready to be charged with a felony - took me a year of big $ to save myself from going to jail and big fines (had to hire a lawyer)- no mercy for the poor hard working girl! Wish I could get away with a lil bit now & then!
rick_sat 1-21-2008
making a movie about kurt cobain is a BAD idea!! and this freak is looking to BANK on HIS success and cult status!! boycott Courtney Love! boycott this movie! how are Dave Grohl and the rest of Nirvana going to be depiced as??
Donatellaat 1-21-2008
Does Scarlett have enough track marks on her arms to look legit???
Thatsmintttt@aol.comat 1-21-2008
I dont know how old some of you are, lol but I'm 27 now and I used to LOVE listening to Nirvana when I was in my teens, and still enjoy listening every now & then today. Kurt Kobain was insanely talented and as much as I'd hate to admit it bc she is/was a drug addict, so is Courtney Love. I am a fan of some of her songs. I think making a movie about there lives is genious. They've got my ticket to go see it! Very surprised though this didnt come out sooner. Props to Courtney for holding out so long. Cant wait til this movie comes out.
bobat 1-22-2008
i cant believe kurt and courtney are being compared to the modern day sid and nancy. kurt was and will always be regarded as a brilliant musician who no doubtably changed the course of rock n roll for the good. sid couldnt even play the fucking bass guitar when he joined the sex pistols. by the way, people who refer to kurt as just simply a drug addict are completely ignorant. for fuck sake, even john lennon was a junky at many points during his life. kurt was a brilliant songwriter. definetly one of the best ever. and by the way, i hope to god they dont go through with this movie. kurt would roll over in his grave. please leave it be.
DKat 1-22-2008
They weren't cokeheads, they were heroin addicts.
As for "why these two idiots" should have a movie made about them, hmmm..... maybe because Nirvana, love them or hate them, changed the landscape of popular music in the early 90's, paving the way for bands ranging from Green Day to Korn & beyond to achieve mainstream success and provided a rock & roll alternative to other "heroin addicts" (& "cokeheads") like Guns N' Roses, Poison, etc. And they weren't just a quick flash in the pan like the Sex Pistols either.
If you're not interested, fine, but to say it's pointless is just ignorant. Have you accomplished anything of enough significance to warrant Hollywood wasting celluloid on YOUR life story?
Lisaat 1-22-2008
DK -
I couldn't agree with you more. I remember the day he died. I was driving to a meeting and I heard it on the radio. I was wearing a pair of jeans and in the meeting I wrote,"I don't have a gun" on them. My bosses didn't understand why I was so devistated. I guess they didn't listen to music. I guess they didn't understand that Kobain had changed music as we knew it. I know this is a terrible thing to say, but I think she killed him. Not literally. She knew he was in trouble. She could have kept him in lock down. As his wife she could have legally had him committed. But she was too busy sucking on the marrow of his genius. She wanted fame in a bad way. Here's a little but of cinematic history for you, she had one line in "Sid and Nancy" at the very top of the movie. It was before all her facial reconstruction, but if you watch it, the camera passes her as she says her line. I know how hard it is to deal with a junkie, especially if you are one yourself. But she only became famous because of him. He was the talent. He was an artist who bared his soul at a high cost. He was a sensitive kid, he was ill a lot of the time with stomach issues and she didn't take care of him. She let go of him and we lost him. I harsh on her this way because she could have wrangled his parents, the band members and whomever she could to keep an eye on him 24/7. I'm sure he spoke of suicide. He wrote about it. Maybe he was too fragile for this world. She should have known that, instead of watching out for him, she plotting her own fame with that wretched band, "Hole." How did she miss what a gift he was to the music? How does one not treasure that? How did it all become about her? Her and her f--k you attitude were not nearly as important as her husband's artistry. They were only important to her because she is a hole, a dark, vampirish, hole. Apt name for what she called a band. I remember when she read his suicide note to a huge crowd holding candles outside her house, I guess. Again, it was about her. She could have gone to a magazine like, "Rolling Stone" and given it to them. But no, she had to have an audience, chock full of TV cameras, because his suicide was her ladder to fame. If she was at all talented, if she had something new to say, if she hadn't hooked up with the A crowd and watched the runway shows in Paris, I probably wouldn't have so much disdain for her. We lost Kurt, the authentic poet. We are left with her. The authentic poser. Who did she help? Who did she speak out to? He spoke to all of us. I was in my thirties when he died. I'm not a kid. He spoke to me. He opened his heart to strangers and he changed music. What has she changed? My only hope with whole movie thing, is that now, in her later years, she sees her culpability in his death and wants to cleanse herself of it. But that's just a hope. The reality is that it's not a film about him, it is a film about THEM. I wish she could for once understand how deeply he effected us all and get out of the way. But -- "Wishin ain't gettin."