We will have to wait yet another year for Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic, as Blonde gets rescheduled to 2022, instead of 2021. The film is based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel of the same name. A fixed debut date has not yet been released.
Blonde has many eyes set on it, with rumors of a possible Oscar nomination tagged even before a trailer for the film can be released.
Hailing as the “Blonde Bombshell” will be Knives Out’s Ana de Armas, alongside big names such as Adrien Broody and Julianne Nicholson.
Sadly, as Variety reports, the project has been pushed back to 2022, with no fixed release date. As for the reason for the delay, your guess is as good as ours. Although filming was reported to have begun in 2019 and is now in post-production, the streamer is mum on the statement.
Now, you may expect Blonde to be such an anticipated watch because of the icon it centers around or its star-studded cast. But film connoisseurs are awaiting this marvel because it is an Andrew Dominik exclusive.
The director is known for his delectable hits Killing Them Softly and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Moreover, he is known to be very selective with his works, having directed only four feature films as of yet. All of them have gained critical acclaim.
Dominik’s tryst with Blonde began over a decade again in 2010 when he started adapting the novel for the silver screen. Being his first film with a female headliner, he hopes to deliver it with as little dialogue as possible in order to see the avalanche of events for what they were.
Read more of what Dominik has to say about the film:
It tells the story of how a childhood trauma shapes an adult who’s split between a public and a private self. It’s basically the story of every human being, but it’s using a certain sense of association that we have with something very familiar, just through media exposure.
It takes all of those things and turns the meanings of them inside out, according to how she feels, which is basically how we live. It’s how we all operate in the world. It just seems to me to be very resonant.
Andrew Dominik
While the slate is paused on Blonde’s release, Netflix is predicted to set a debut date that will grant the movie a snuggly seat in the 2022 Oscar’s nomination list.
It may be for the best since Netflix is currently in post-production for its most expensive film ever, The Gray Man, which will also have de Armas starring.
For those of you who’d like to see Ana de Armas before her time in Blonde, keep your calendars marked for her as the new Bond girl in No Time To Die and alongside Ben Affleck in Deep Waters.
About Blonde
Blonde is an upcoming American biopic based on the life of American actress Marilyn Monroe. Written and directed by Andrew Dominik, it has been adapted from the Joyce Carol Oates 2000 novel of the same name.
After a traumatic childhood, Norma Jeane Mortenson becomes an actress in Hollywood in the 1950s and early 1960s. She becomes world famous under the stage name “Marilyn Monroe”, but her on-screen appearances are in stark contrast to the love issues, exploitation, abuse of power, and drug addiction she faces in her private life
Ana de Armas will be playing Monroe, while Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, and Julianne Nicholson star in supporting roles. Netflix is set to release the film on September 28, 2022.
Source: Variety
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