Gus Van Sant’s Last Days is being adapted into an opera for some reason
The 2005 movie was inspired by the death of Kurt Cobain

Last Days star Michael Pitt and director Gus Van Sant Photo: Evan Agostini
For a movie that wasn’t enormously well-received when it was released and remains pretty divisive to this day, Gus Van Sant’s Last Days still retains a certain bit of cultural cachet. The movie is about the—ahem—last days of Kurt Cobain’s life, only the character isn’t called Kurt Cobain and the other people in his life aren’t necessarily based on Courtney Love and the other members of Nirvana. It’s a Jackie Jormp-Jomp biopic, but it’s played straight (maybe too straight) and it doesn’t have phony Nirvana songs… until now! Maybe!