New Kurt Cobain documentary to air in UK cinemas next year

A new, HBO-commissioned and “fully authorised” documentary about Kurt Cobain is set to screen in UK cinemas next year.

Brett Morgen’s ‘Montage of Heck’ will gain release next Spring via Universal. It’s set to premiere in the US next year, on HBO.

Cobain’s daughter Frances Bean is the executive producer of ‘Montage of Heck’, the title being lifted from one of the Nirvana frontman’s mixtapes, which emerged earlier last month. His former partner, Tracy Marander, said of the tape: “He made it using records, some TV, and random sounds he recorded. It was all made in Aberdeen [Washington], I believe. It took him quite a while.”

Filmmaker Brett Morgen said of the documentary: “Like most people, when I started, I figured there would be limited amounts of fresh material to unearth. However, once I stepped into Kurt’s archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased music and audio, a vast array of art projects (oil paintings, sculptures), countless hours of never-before-seen home movies, and over 4,000 pages of writings that together help paint an intimate portrait of an artist who rarely revealed himself to the media.”