Frances Bean Cobain – Skin Back Alley

HBO’s forthcoming documentary about the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain will be accompanied by an official book it has been announced.

The book will share the name of the film, Montage Of Heck, itself based on the name of a mixtape put together by Cobain and circulated widely online last year.

A press release about the book says that it will feature exclusive interviews featured in the film plus a mixture of animation stills, rare photography, and other images from Cobain’s personal archive. Director of the documentary, Brett Morgen, will also make a contribution.

Montage Of Heck will be broadcast in the UK on HBO in April, with the film being given a nationwide cinema release at the same time.

Kurt Cobain’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, is acting as Executive Producer for the project.

Meanwhile it has also been reported today that online retailers have stopped selling clothing lines that featured the entirety of Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter printed on them. The move comes following an online campaign by Nirvana fans to halt the sale of the goods.

Courtney Love has said that a biopic about Kurt Cobain will start filming within the next 12 months.

Speaking in interview with Inquirer Entertainment, Love said: “The biopic should start within the next year or so. I won’t name names because I don’t want to jinx it for anyone but these are 25-year-olds who are blonde, gorgeous and the new Brad Pitts. There’s a ton of those. Some are really good actors, not just pretty faces. I don’t want to be the person who makes that decision.”

She went on to say that she will be involved in the film in some capacity, though: “I do have a say in it. So do Frances, and Krist (Novoselic) and Dave (Grohl), for that matter, if it touches on Nirvana — and it will. I am leading the charge because it’s time to do this.”

Courtney Love has said in the past that she has several plans for Cobain’s legacy, including a stage play and a documentary.