From Billboard.com:
Cobain Pic Strikes Chord At WB
The WB Network is developing an original movie about the life of rock icon Kurt Cobain. The network has obtained the rights to "Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain," the 2001 book by Charles Cross.
Robert Munic ("They Call Me Sir") has been commissioned to write the script for the film, which could get a primetime berth as early as next season. No casting or director is attached.
"The day Kurt Cobain died was the day the music died for a generation," WB senior VP original movies Tana Nugent Jamieson says. "His story is perfect for our audience."
The film will trace Cobain's life from his troubled youth to his pioneering role in the emergence of the grunge music genre as the lead singer of Nirvana. Taking its cue from Cross' biography, the film will detail Cobain's bouts with depression and drug abuse as well as his turbulent relationship with rocker wife Courtney Love.
It's grim stuff for a network that stocks such clean-cut fare as "Everwood" and "Smallville," but Jamieson hopes to give the film a cautionary tone, with a public-service announcement on the dangers of depression possibly following the film. "We can do this right without seeming preachy," she said.
"It's not your traditional biopic," said Munic, who has been on a hot streak, having two movie projects set up at Lifetime and working on a concept for a series at FX. "The storytelling will have a nonlinear style, flashing to different parts of his life out of chronological order."
