The wait for Ana de Armas’ Marilyn Monroe movie, ‘Blonde,’ is almost over. Here’s everything you should know about the Netflix film premiering in September 2022.
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“There’s something in it to offend everyone.”
If you feel like you’ve been hearing about the Ana de Armas Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde for a long time now, well, you’re right! The Knives Out alum first joined the project back in in 2019 (an ancient time pre-Ben Affleck and the cardboard cutout saga), but the 2020 lockdown and other delays pushed Blonde back — and back again. Even writer-director Andrew Dominik joked about the prolonged rollout, recently telling Vulture that “By the time Blonde comes out, everyone’s going to be sick of talking about it.”
But that seems unlikely, given the intrigue (and controversy) that Blonde has managed to court so far. Based on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 novel, Netflix describes the film as a “fictional portrait” of Marilyn Monroe — and of Norma Jeane Baker, the woman before the stage name. On his highly anticipated film, Dominik also told Vulture “there’s something in it to offend everyone.
