Robert Pattinson is apparently being lined up by Courteney Love to play Kurt Cobain in a biopic of the musician's life.

Love has made no secret of the fact she has wanted to make the movie for some time and tell the story of his mysterious death.

Rumours are that Scarlett Johansson will star opposite the British heartthrob and Fight Club director David Fincher will head the production.

Cobain died at the peak of his success on April 8th 1994 of what was officially ruled as a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

The death has always been a topic of much contention and conspiracy theories.