Courtney Love to Star in Linda Lovelace Biopic

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Courtney Love has been chosen to play former adult star Linda Lovelace in a film biography tentatively titled “Lovelace.”

Lovelace, who died in 2002, starred in “Deep Throat,” perhaps the most successful adult film ever produced. That film was chronicled in the documentary “Inside Deep Throat,” which was released in February.

“Lovelace,” which is being developed by Blumhouse Productions with Merritt Johnson writing the script, traces the adult star’s life from 17 until she died at 53.

Lovelace was one of the best-known names in porn history, despite appearing in only a handful of films in the early 1970s. But her role in “Deep Throat” catapulted her into fame in 1972.

In “Deep Throat,” Lovelace was the story of a woman who found orgasmic pleasure through her throat. Her name became synonymous with oral sex for three decades.

Her post-“Deep Throat” work reached a high point in “Exotic French Fantasies” with John Holmes.

Lovelace disappeared into a haze of drug use and sexual excess, re-emerging in the mid-1980s as an outspoken opponent of the adult industry.

Linda Lovelace died on April 22, 2002 from internal injuries she suffered in a car crash.

Love, who has spent more time in courthouses than on movie sets in recent years, is best known for her starring role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt." The former wife of rocker Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Love has a role in “Julie Johnson,” which is due out in May.

HBO Films has agreed to a first-look deal with Blumhouse Productions for “Lovelace.”

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