It will be released on HBO later this year. There are, Morgen says, a total of 40 minutes of never-before-heard Cobain instrumentals and pieces of 5 unreleased songs, as well as Cobain’s cover of The Beatles’ “And I Love Her.” Morgen’s film is strikingly intimate, pulling back the veil on people’s idealized notions of what many consider the last true rock star. Directed by Morgen and executive produced by Frances Bean, it's an utterly fascinating look at the music legend’s inner life via a multimedia patchwork of hundreds of hours of unreleased audio footage, interviews, home videos, animation, drawings, mixtapes, diary entries, and testimonials from friends and family, ranging from his parents to Krist Novoselic and Courtney Love. The result is Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. I thought if it worked for her on that level, it would work for other people.” Because Kurt died when she was two, she has no memories of him. “The focus for me changed after I met Frances to wanting to create a film that would allow her to have a couple hours with her father that she never had. Kurt or Kurt the Celebrity Rock Star, but Kurt the Man,” Morgen tells The Daily Beast. “She wanted a film that humanized Kurt-that wasn’t St. Cut to a few years later and, with Love, Nirvana, and Mestel onboard, Morgen met with Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean, who by then had gained control over her father’s name, likeness, and appearance rights.Īccording to Morgen, he thought he was just going over his idea for the movie but before he could get two words out, Frances Bean pitched him on her idea for the film which, interestingly enough, was completely in sync with his own vision.

But Love had already sold much of Nirvana’s publishing rights to music exec Larry Mestel. Eight years ago, Courtney Love approached filmmaker Brett Morgen ( The Kid Stays in the Picture) about directing the first fully authorized documentary on late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain.

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