David Finch fight club is a landmark film for viewers of a certain generation. If you were of a very impressionable age when Fincher’s adaptation came out in 1999, chances are you were influenced by Tyler Durden, the fantastical anti-hero played by Brad Pitt. As we noted in our summary of behind the scenes fight club deeds , several actresses applied for the role of offbeat love interest Marla, who was ultimately played by Helena Bonham Carter. Now Courtney Love says her role was all hers, until she lost it. And blame Pitt.
According to Courtney Love, the notorious musician who has had a strong acting career, wanted to adapt Chuck Palahniuk’s debut novel. fight club into a feature film, mainly because the book had ties to the Portland community. While appearing as a guest on the WTF podcast with Marc Maron Love says she gave Fincher the project and landed the role of Marla, though Love says she and Fincher are understandably “terrified” of each other. understandable, based on this other directors have talked about working with Love . However, she really thought the two creatives were innovating with theirs fight club cooperation. I was excited.
Around 1999, Courtney Love tells Marc Maron that she received a call from director Gus Van Sant, who was having lunch with Brad Pitt when she made the call. The two should have thought about the scenario they had it would eventually become secret in the mountain , but Van Sant quickly turned away once they’d spoken to Courtney on the phone. Van Sant told Love that Pitt was looking for a film about music. As she continued to relate the events of that call, Love clarified:
And then they both called, and it was like hellmouth opened. My God. “We want to talk about Kurt (Cobain)!” It’s like the year 2000. Nobody ever did that. And 22 years later, I still blame myself for not having the shark instinct to say “Sure” and fuck them later. I went nuclear. ‘Son of a bitch, I don’t Faust the…go to hell…(screaming noise)’
So yeah, that didn’t go well. And part of me is disappointed, because a 1999 Kurt Cobain biopic starring Brad Pitt could have been great. Cobain was the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Nirvana and was married to Courtney Love from 1992 until he committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27. Gus Vant Sant has told the story of him, more or less, abstractly. movie, and in documentary form , which Love supported. Love says in an interview with Marc Maron that he still plans to do a traditional Cobain biopic, but hasn’t elaborated.
Back to Fight Club. Courtney Love, at the time of filming this film, was dating Brad Pitt. fight club co-star, Edward Norton. Some have accused Norton of stepping in Get Love the role of Marla . But Love now flips the script and says, at the very least, it was Pitt who lost the role of Love. She explained:
Edward returns home. He begins to sob. …and my landline phone rang. And that was David Fincher. And I knew it would be him. I’m like, ‘Don’t do this. No!’ By the way, God bless Helena Bonham Carter. She is a genius. I’ve never seen this movie. And yes, he (Fincher) fired me for not letting Brad play Kurt.
And so, we’re adding a Kurt Cobain biopic starring Brad Pitt to the long list of movies that could have been, but never will. That doesn’t stop Courtney Love from continuing to share her point of view, whether she says so Scarlett Johansson should play her in a movie criticize the poor Olivia Rodrigo album covers . Love tells Maron that she has been working on her first album for years. We’ll see if that helps him get back into the entertainment spotlight.
Source: Cinemablend
