There have been many Kurt Cobain movies in the two decades since the death of the Nirvana leader, most recently the Sundance Film Festival and HBO darling "Cobain: Montage of Heck," completely approved by his estate - but there's a new conspiracy film coming out that widow Courtney Love is desperate to halt.
The latest Kurt Cobain movie is called "Soaked in Bleach" and was directed by Benjamin Statler, showing an account of the relationship between the Nirvana musician and wife Love, featuring a fairly popular conspiracy theory that claims Cobain's death wasn't a suicide but rather an elaborate murder plot from the Hole singer, who's asked theaters to prevent the movie from being showed.
According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the new Kurt Cobain movie was released in theaters last week, and it has come out that his widow's lawyers sent theaters showing it a cease-and-desist letter.
"This letter shall serve as notice to (name withheld) that the Film portrays Ms. Cobain in a false light and contains defamatory statements that exposes (name withheld) to substantial liability," the letter to theaters reads regarding the new Kut Cobain movie, according to Billboard. "We demand that you immediately cease and desist from infringing on Ms. Cobain's rights in any manner whatsoever, including but not limited to completely halting the Film's planned exhibition and promotion."
The new Kurt Cobain movie, produced by Suburban Hitchhiker and Daredevil Films, centers on private investigator Tom Grant, who Love hired in 1994 to find Cobain after he disappeared on March 30 of that same year; Deadline reports that Grant recorded many of his conversations with the troubled singer regarding her husband, which are shown in the film as it mixes documentary style with reenactments.
The letter also states that the new Kurt Cobain movie perpetuates a "widely and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory" that accuses Love of murdering her husband, something that clearly defames Frances Bean Cobain's mother.
