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Mar 19, 2004 12:00 a.m. - KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment

Gus Van Sant To Direct Grunge Period Piece

While it’s provided content for about a zillion VH1 specials, the Seattle grunge scene hasn’t provided a setting for many dramatic films. Sure, there was Cameron Crowe’s 1992 romantic comedy Singles — starring Matt Dillon as a dopey grunge rocker with much of Pearl Jam playing his band, Citizen Dick, and Soundgarden and Alice In Chains playing themselves — but few directors have gone for a ‘90s Pacific Northwest period piece. According to the Hollywood Reporter, director Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting) has written a script for a film that he will direct and produce called Last Days, which focuses on the mid-‘90s Seattle music scene. Van Sant has reportedly hatched out a deal with HBO films, who also backed his last movie, the high school shooting drama, Elephant. It’s not known if HBO will release the movie in theatres (as was the case with Elephant) or if they’ll run it on their American cable network. While the script is purely fictional, it apparently focuses on the rise of an indie rock band fronted by an intense leader uncomfortable with the band’s sudden rise to fame. While no one is calling the project a Nirvana biopic, the similarities between the fictional protagonist and the late Kurt Cobain are said to be fairly obvious. So who has the chops to play the fallen grunge angel? Van Sant chose his muse early in the game — he’s been developing the project with actor Michael Pitt for some years now. 22-year old Pitt (Cobain was 20 when he formed Nirvana in 1987) most recently starred in Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, but is probably best known for his role in the film version of Hedwig And The Angry Inch. Pitt is also slated to star in the upcoming West Memphis Three film as Damien Echols.

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