Netflix strikes Ana de Armas starrer Marilyn Monroe biopic ‘Blonde’ for 2022 launch

By ANI
WASHINGTON: There is dangerous information for followers anticipating the discharge of ‘Blonde’, which is Netflix’s fictionalized telling of Marilyn Monroe’s life starring Ana de Armas, because the streamer has now slated the movie for a 2022 launch.

According to Variety, ‘Blonde’, which is being directed by Andrew Dominik, who tailored the movie from the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, was one of many 12 months’s most anticipated movies by trade insiders and shoppers. A selected launch date for 2022 has not been set but.

In growth since 2010, actors like Jessica Chastain and Naomi Watts had been as soon as connected to the challenge. Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux had said in an interview with Deadline that he had invited ‘Blonde’ to display screen out-of-competition at this 12 months’s competition, however Netflix declined.

Cuban actor de Armas has been a rising star in Hollywood for the previous few years with memorable roles in ‘Blade Runner 2049’ and ‘Knives Out’, for which she even acquired a Golden Globe nomination. The movie may also star Oscar-winner Adrien Brody, Emmy nominee Julianne Nicholson and Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale.

Dominik has said in previous interviews that the movie “has very little dialogue in it,” which might have made it tough to navigate the upcoming awards season the place the streamer would have bait-y contenders like the big ensemble ‘Don’t Look Up’ from Adam McKay and the interval drama ‘The Power of the Dog’ from Jane Campion.

Netflix has an avalanche of tasks ready within the wings for awards consideration, lots of that are undated however anticipated to drop within the calendar 12 months.

These embrace the directorial debuts of Halle Berry with ‘Bruised’, Rebecca Hall with ‘Passing’, Jeymes Samuel with ‘The Harder They Fall’ and Lin-Manuel Miranda with ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’, in addition to a ardour challenge from Paolo Sorrentino (“The Hand of God”) and a still-untitled function from director Nora Fingscheidt starring Sandra Bullock.

‘Blonde’ is being produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Tracey London, Brad Pitt and Scott Robertson. As per Variety, no official future launch date has been set for ‘Blonde’.