MOVERMAN IN TALKS TO TAKE ON COBAIN BIOPIC
The Oscar-nominated first-time director of THE MESSENGER is in talks to b= ring KURT COBAIN’s life to the big screen in a much-delayed biopic.
Oren Moverman has emerged as the frontrunner to replace Brothers screen= writer David Benioff as the director of the project, based on Charles R. = Cross’ 2001 biography Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain.
Benioff has already completed work on his script for the film, based in= part on Cross’ book and from interviews the screenwriter carried out wit= h Cobain sources.
Moverman, who also penned the script for quirky Bob Dylan tribute I’m N= ot There, and The Messenger co-writer Alessandro Camon have scored Oscar = nominations for their original screenplay.
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