The Next Sid & Nancy: Gosling and Johansson to play Cobain & Love?

If you happen to notice a Ryan Gosling without a crew cut or a Scarlett Johansson in a platinum blond dye then that would mean that Courtney Love would have gotten what she wished for. Hard at work on not a new album but a big screen biopic titled Heavier than Heaven, apparently via a multitude of sources unknown, Love’s aspired casting picks (very pretty choices) are the two actors: Gosling gave us edgy with his drug-induced state in Half Nelson, and Johansson is a chesty enough to make a bad impression in Love’s undressed stage states, but to superimpose such faces onto both Love and Cobain might prove to be a difficult stretch. Make up jobs and battered sweaters will need to be above par.  

Based on a Cobain biography written by Charles Cross – the author
had access to Cobain’s unpublished diaries as well as Cobain’s friends and
family members. The Universal
Pictures project will undoubtedly be compared to Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy – and when you touch upon
an iconic it might result in temporary career suicide.