Happy to report that after hefty post-production battles, Andrew Dominik will happen be getting final cut on his Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde.”
Netflix has allowed Dominik to release the film as it was, unfiltered and without any cuts, maybe after realizing that “Blonde” wasn’t going to contend for Oscars and was a straight-up arthouse affair.
Dominik’s cut is said to be rated NC-17. It was originally set to world premiere at the Venice Film Festival before being pulled out by Netflix late in the game. I broke the Netflix/Dominik dispute in the summer which led to a small online campaign by fans to give Dominik, a major auteur in world cinema, the cut that he so richly deserved.
There is no word yet on a possible release date for “Blonde”and whether or not the rumour that this will also be submitted to the Sundance Film Festival is true.