The cast will bring voice to an array of Marilyn related material gathered from the Arthur Miller estate, Truman Capote estate and beyond, including poems, letters and diary entries written by and about the icon.
Garbus said of the film: “We’re working with amazing material. It will go to the heart of Marilyn and express some of the aspects of the woman which have not been touched on before. The actors will convey Marilyn’s fears, anxieties, the men in her life, agents of both good and evil, and the context of the world she lived in. Marilyn was foregrounding her sexuality in a world that wasn’t quite ready for that and her struggle is palpable in these texts. We also discover how hard she worked at her acting and her passion for the craft. “
Producer Buchthal added: “We thought about one big name to read as Marilyn but wanted to celebrate her in a different way. The poems and letters opened up a very different Marilyn Monroe to the one we have seen before. She was very well read, for example, and far from the frivolous blonde she was sometimes made out to be. That is what was exciting to me. Not enough people have taken her seriously as a serious person. This film uncovers how insightful, poetic and interesting she was”.
Buchthal co-edited the archive book Fragments - a major source for the film - which sold 600,000 copies in 22 countries.
Currently in production, the film is set for delivery by Aug. 5, 2012, the 50th anniversary of Monroe’s death.The project looks interesting though I'm always skeptic, when it comes to Marylin, that no imitation can do her emblematic figure justice. But since this is a documentary based on real historic material I think we can hope for a great homage :)
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