Variety reported last week that Universal Pictures has hired screenwriter David Benioff to adapt Cross' Cobain biography for the big screen. His other credits include "Stay," "Troy," and "25th Hour" as well as the as-yet-released "The Kite Runner" and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." Working Title and Ben Silverman's Reveille will co-produce the film. Don't expect the film to be very critical of Cobain's widow Courtney Love as she has signed on as an executive producer. Her attorney Howard Weitzman has also been named as an executive producer.
The book the film will be based on has been criticized on a few fronts by the Cobain faithful. The Wikipedia entry for the book says "While arguably the most complete Cobain biography, Cross opted to include his own impression of what Cobain's final days were like. Several people questioned the inclusion of fiction in what was claimed to be a non-fiction book.[3] At the same time, Cross' desire for the book to be as complete as possible meant that he occasionally accepted secondhand (and incorrect) information as fact.[4] The book was criticized as being a collaboration between Love and Cross by such friends as Everett True, who derided the book as being inaccurate, omissive, and highly biased, calling it 'the Courtney-sanctioned version of history'". - Read the full Wikipedia entry here
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