Jessica Chastain is set to play Marilyn Monroe in the long-gestating biopic Blonde, The Wrap reports. New Zealand director Andrew Dominik was close to setting up Blonde a few years ago with Naomi Watts in the lead, but the release of another biopic, My Week with Marilyn, led to Dominik’s plans being put on hold. Blonde […]
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Trailer Debut: My Week With Marilyn
October 10, 2011 
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See the first moving images of Michelle Williams as screen starlet Marilyn Monroe in the newly released trailer for My Week With Marilyn. The Simon Curtis film is based on Colin Clark’s memoirs The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me: Six Months on Set with Marilyn and Olivier. Clark was employed by Sir Laurence Olivier on the British set […]
Continue readingNew look at Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe
November 29, 2010 1 Comment
If there was any doubt that Michelle Williams is the perfect Marilyn Monroe then Collider’s newly released picture of the starlet in Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn should put naysayers to rest. The film is based on The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me: Six Months on Set with Marilyn and Olivier, the memoirs of […]
Continue readingSee Naomi Watts as Marilyn Monroe
May 19, 2010 0 Comments
Thanks to happy-snappers over at the Cannes film festival, we have our first glimpse of Naomi Watts as Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming biopic Blonde. No, that’s not it. Sadly, the image of Watts as Monroe is a little less hi-res (Thanks to AlloCine for the snap regardless). Check her out below. Blonde is […]
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