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"The A Star is Born remake is about Kurt Cobain if he had lived, the screenwriter has revealed. Will Fetters said that he was inspired by the life and death of the Nirvana frontman in his work on the Clint Eastwood-directed project. &amp;quot;I think I&amp;#039;ve reinvented the Norman Maine character, the lead,&amp;quot; Fetters told CraveOnline at a junket for The Lucky One. &amp;quot;I wanted to do A Star is Born because I&amp;#039;m a huge Kurt Cobain fan. That was like my Kennedy assassination when I was a teenager. When he died, it was a huge horrible thing. &amp;quot;So I approached A Star is Born, for me the framework was all right, if Kurt Cobain never got to go Unplugged (MTV Unplugged in New York, the band&amp;#039;s first release after Cobain&amp;#039;s death) and survived and it&amp;#039;s 20 years later and it&amp;#039;s now, and he wanted to try to do that album with that understanding as this grunge icon.  &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;d be tough to get done if he was past his prime, no longer selling, how does he get that album?&amp;quot; Warner Bros is pursuing Tom Cruise to headline the film opposite previously-announced star Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9. Eastwood&amp;#039;s version will be the fourth big-screen iteration of A Star Is Born. The original was directed by William A Wellman in 1937, featuring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. The Judy Garland and James Mason-starring 1954 version of A Star Is Born is probably the best known, while the 1976 version saw Frank Pierson directing Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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