Hollywood star Naomi Watts is all set to play one of the most sought after and glamorous screen icons Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic.
Hollywood star Naomi Watts is all set to play one of the most sought after and glamorous screen icons Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic.
The King Kong star will take on the lead role in Blonde, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' imaginary Marilyn Monroe memoir, reported Screen Daily online. The film will be directed by Andrew Dominik, who has made movies like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
The USD 20 million production will begin filming in January 2011, and Dominik is delighted to have found his Monroe. "Why is Marilyn Monroe the great female icon of the 20th Century? For men she is an object of sexual desire that is desperately in need of rescue. For women, she embodies all the injustices visited upon the feminine, a sister, a Cinderella, consigned to live among the ashes," he said.
"I want to tell the story of Norma Jeane as a central figure in a fairytale, an orphan child lost in the woods of Hollywood, being consumed by that great icon of the twentieth century," he added.
Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, died in 1962 at the age of 36 following a drug overdose.
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