Marilyn Monroe biopic director says movie will be NC-17 rated

The upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” starring Ana de Armas, finally has a movie ranking.

The Netflix flick — which is established to debut on the streaming support later this yr — will be rated an NSFW NC-17. Rumors of the ranking 1st circulated last summer.

Director Andrew Dominik discussed the film for the duration of a chat with Display screen Daily and stated, “It’s an NC-17 motion picture about Marilyn Monroe. It’s sort of what you want, appropriate? I want to go and see the NC-17 model of the Marilyn Monroe tale.”

The motion picture is dependent on Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 book of the very same identify. Earlier, there was a scene that reportedly involved menstruation and oral sexual intercourse, but Dominik explained that was just a “hilarious” rumor.

Nonetheless, the “Killing Them Softly” director verified that a rape scene with a studio executive will be demonstrated on screen.

“It’s a demanding movie,” Dominik explained. “If the viewers does not like it, that is the f–king audience’s difficulty. It is not running for general public workplace.”

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“Knives Out” star Ana de Armas is portraying legendary blond bombshell Marilyn Monroe.
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Dominik included that he hopes that the movie will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in Could with an out-of-competition slot, which implies the motion picture will be screened but not suitable for awards. “[Netflix] said, ‘We’ll set the film in theaters for eight months in advance of we deliver it out on the system,’” the director reported.

In accordance to Dominik, Cannes pageant director Thierry Frémaux “loves” the new biopic. Frémaux told Deadline back in June that “Blonde” was meant to be a aspect of the 2021 Cannes lineup.

The flick was filmed in 2019 and experienced been in development given that 2010. Stars this sort of as Jessica Chastain and Naomi Watts ended up at the time hooked up.

“It’s wonderful, I saw it, and I invited [Netflix] movies [to show] out of opposition,” Frémaux defined to Deadline. “Netflix does not want to come to Cannes, but I invited them anyway and alas … It is critical: It is not us refusing Netflix motion pictures, it’s Netflix who does not want or just can’t … They want to arrive in competition, but movies that are part of the opposition ought to be released [theatrically] in France.”

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Monroe died at the young age of 36 in 1962.
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Dominik also informed Screen Day-to-day that “Blonde” would not have been capable to be developed without the #MeToo movement, “because nobody was interested in that sort of s–t, what it is like to be an unloved female, or what it is like to go by the Hollywood meat grinder.”

He then praised de Armas’ general performance, indicating that while there was “work involved” in producing the the “Knives Out” actress “sound American,” she is “f–king amazing” as the 1950s film icon.

“The a person thing nobody’s going to complain about is [de Armas’] efficiency,” Dominik claimed.

Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson are also starring in the drama.