It has been four years since Andrew Dominik‘s under-appreciated “Killing Them Softly” hit theaters. While the director returns next month with the Nick Cave documentary “One More Time With Feeling,” any news about a Dominik-helmed feature film has been pretty quiet lately. For a long while now, he’s been developing a Marilyn Monroe movie based on the book “Blonde” by Joyce Carol Oates, but as things sometimes go in Hollywood, the pieces just couldn’t come together. Naomi Watts had been attached for the lead role, followed by a possible turn from Jessica Chastain. The good news, however, is that the movie finally looks to be happening, but with a new lead.
In an interview at Indiewire, the director revealed that “Blonde” will now be a Netflix production, with filming starting in early 2017. “I’m very grateful,” he said. “My idea with the film is to make something a little more accessible than what I’ve done before. It moves a bit faster.”
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He’s got a new actress to play Monroe, but for now is staying mum on just who it will be, but don’t expect a straight-forward biopic, as it apparently leans heavy on imagery and less on dialogue.
“It’s a really sprawling, emotional nightmare fairy-tale type movie, and I want to do it real bad… It’s a story about an abandoned orphan who gets lost in the woods,” is how Dominik described the movie in 2012.
We can’t wait to see Dominik’s take on a Hollywood icon, and we’re glad that after so many years it’s finally going to happen. [via The Film Stage]