Director Gus Van Sant ("My Own Private Idaho", "Good Will Hunting") hopes to explore what happened during Kurt Cobain's final days in his next film "Last Days" despite much debate over the real events - "There are a lot of hypotheses about what happened, but I don't know of any full eyewitness account, just tiny momentary ones. Everyone has a different opinion, but there's not one true, authoritative account. He was just kind of missing."
Talking with MTV, Van Sant started playing with the idea of "Last Days" soon after Cobain's death but he took his time getting the cast and location figured out for the project which recently wrapped shooting in New York and will be released next year via HBO Films and Fine Line Features.
Like "Elephant," which improvised a story out of the Columbine high school tragedy, "Last Days" will have a semi-documentary visual style and won't really offer any conclusions as to why a Cobain-like character (Michael Pitt) killed himself, although there will be plenty of hints and suggestions in this fictionalized setting.
Instead of Cobain deciding to kill himself, "Last Days" suggests that the troubled singer was already resigned to his own death and that the process was already in motion long before he went missing and was found dead from a gunshot wound.
Thanks to 'KarlChilders'.
