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Sadly the fictional Marilyn Monroe musical from the TV show Smash Bombshell does not seem to be making its Broadway debut any time soon but we are getting another look at the life and loves of Marilyn Monroe Blonde starring Ana de Armas. The movie—based on the 2000 Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name was bought by Netflix and will hit the streamer some time after premiering at the Venice Film Festival in September. A 700-page historical fiction account of Monroes life and crucially inner life by Joyce Carol Oates. The novel explores the idea that Monroe may have been assassinated which is um very unlikely but a very good story. In fact Oatess novel proved popular enough to be turned into a two part miniseries a year after it was published. We expect this newer adaptation to make more of a splash.
It does not look like Oates had much of a hand in writing the screenplay which is credited to director Andrew Dominik online but she has already supportive of the project calling the footage she has seen brilliant on Twitter.In addition to de Armas as the titular blonde the movie will feature several well known faces playing well known names. Adrien Brody is the Playwright a.k.a. Monroes husband Death of a Salesman scribe Arthur Miller and Bobby Cannavale plays the Ex Athlete another Monroe husband Yankees centerfielder Joe DiMaggio. Caspar Phillipson who bears an uncanny resemblance to JFK and played him in Jackie will play the President per TimeOut.
