yeah i used to admire this guy

back in my struggling screenwriting days i called Morris Agency to ask if Gus Van Sant, their client would want to read my script about Kurt Cobain.

They got back to me and said sure send it in.

I never heard anything.

A couple of years later Last Days came out about a tormented grunge rocker. Opening scene in my story had the guy hanging out by himself down by the river. Pretty cool to get ripped off by a real legend like Gus Van Sant.

Do I understand correctly, that you might actually have know Cobain? I honestly believe that you might well have.

Were you invited to submit the script directly without your own agent?

Did you actually write Last Days as shot? It's a very visual film with not much dialogue, one of the most unique films I've personally, ever viewed.

With such a famous subject, there must have been a great many studios and spec writers working on projects about him. Van Sant is credited as the writer. Is he represented by William Morris?

Did you follow up with a notice and demand pending litigation?

If you wrote a good screenplay, and it's different from Last Days, Kurt Cobain would still be a most interesting subject, and a successful film could still be viable.

In Last Days, Van Sant briefly alludes to a conspiracy which may have led to Cobain's murder, but not explicitly so. I think it might be time to make a film specifically about precisely that; perhaps with characters coincidentally similar to those living and dead.

http://www.cobaincase.com

That Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rShdRx2zhRs&index=44&list=PLw7k9G6FR38G35IK4Y_FWplXyzAlwWx1e

Last Days Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWnZW3esb8

Gus Van Sant´s "Last Days" Making Of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ccqu3drYc

Oh please, stop with the conspiracy theories. It demeans us all, and most importantly, Cobain himself. What is this, The National Enquirer?
Watching 'Drugstore Cowboy' while living over in Germany is what really made me want to live here.
I still love Gus.

What is deeming is how any death where drug use seems to be in evidence, murder is never investigated.

Okay, I have a great idea for a movie, the birth of Barry O'bama. Now, eventually, more than one movie will be made about the defacto president. Does this prove that I got ripped off if my script isn't selected?

Its ok Dread. No one else believes it either

It's not that I don't believe it, but agencies and studios invariably require all unsolicited script admissions to be pre approved and sent via the writer's own agent or lawyer. It the William Morris Agency had you send them your script, that's what they would have done, so as to avoid a plagiarism suit.

Why didn't you sue?

I'm sure you wrote a good story, but if the film is different than your script, then you didn't write it. The idea to make a movie about someone as famous as Kurt Colabine is not copyrightable, and is bound to be a popular idea originating with a great many in the film industry.

Did you or did you not write Last Days?

What kills me is all the movie goers who say that they have a great idea for a film, that all they need is for someone to write it for them, and for that they'd be willing to split the proceeds.

"Great ideas are easy. Good dialogue is hard."
--Richard Walters, Professor, UCLA
Screenwriting: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television Writing

Here, this looks pretty lame, but maybe he would settle a claim?

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2015/04/23/10-takeaways-from-kurt-cobain-montage-of-heck/#78105=0&31988103=0&32373101=5