Courtney Love is airing out old grievances involving ‘Fight Club’ star Brad Pitt. The actress and Grammy-nominated musician has asserted that she was set for the David Fincher film’s key role of Marla Singer before Pitt intervened and got her “fired”
The actress and Grammy-nominated musician has asserted that she was set for the David Fincher film’s key role of Marla Singer — eventually to be played by Helena Bonham Carter — before Pitt intervened and got her “fired.” Love says that this happened because she “wouldn’t let Brad play” her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, after he pitched her on the idea.
Love explained that when Pitt first brought up the idea of playing Cobain — who committed suicide, aged 27, in 1994 — she “went nuclear.” And that all these years later, she wishes she’d instead embraced “the shark instinct” — letting Pittshe’d go along with the idea of him portraying Cobain, until she was able to get through production onco-star Edward Norton at the time of her alleged firing, Norton told her he didn’t “have the power” to get her re-hired.
Love claimed in conversation with comedian Marc Maron that Pitt has been talking about making a Cobain-centric film since around 1996 — and approached her abouta film on Cobain through his company Plan B as recently as 2020. Again, she was disinclined to hear Pitt out. “I did a Zoom with him and I stuck up for myself. I said, ‘Listen, man. I don’t know that I trust you, and I don’t know that your movies are for profit,'” she shared.
Love went on to say that she’s not opposed to making a Cobain biopic with the right people — like Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy at Warner Bros., perhaps. “Because they know how to make a f***ing movie.”, based on the same-name novel by Chuck Palahniuk, was released by 20th Century Fox in 1999. The anarchic piece watches as an unnamed, insomniac office worker and the devil-may-care soap maker Tyler Durden form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
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