December 3, 2014
Courtney Love helped kickstart Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the first authorized documentary about the late Nirvana frontman, but she’s been denied creative involvement by director Brett Morgen. ”At a certain point, I started working more closely with [Love and Cobain's daughter, Frances Bean],” the filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter. “We agreed that because Courtney was a subject in the film, it would be best if she wasn’t given editorial control.”
Love approached Morgen with the original documentary idea in 2007 after being impressed by his work on the 2002 Robert Evans biopic The Kid Stays in the Picture. She subsequently gave the director access to her enormous personal archives. Morgen says he was given ”the keys to this kingdom and final cut of the film” and also gained access to Cobain material from Bean, who is an executive producer on the project.
Morgen says Love “hasn’t seen the movie,” which is expected to premiere in January at the Sundance festival and will air on HBO in 2015, with an international release planned for later in the year. “I’m not sure she’s intending to,” he told Hollywood Reporter.
In a press release, Montage of Heck is described as “a raw and visceral journey through Cobain’s life” that provides “no-holds-barred access to Kurt Cobain’s archives, home to his never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos, personal archives, family archives and songbooks.” The documentary will include dozens of Nirvana tracks and live performances, along with previously unheard Cobain original songs.
“I started work on this project eight years ago,” Morgen said in a statement. “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.”
Courtney Love Denied Editorial Control on New Kurt Cobain Doc
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