There’s no question one of the most anticipated movies of the year, alongside “Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” David Fincher’s “The Killer,” Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” and Jonathan Glazer’s “Zone of Interest,” is Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde.”
Dominik is now telling Collider’s Steven Weintraub that “Netflix are letting me release the movie I wanted to make, and even with the NC-17 rating.”
He then specifies that the goal is to send “Blonde” to Venice for a fall festival launch: “The idea is it goes to Venice now, so what’s that, September?" Here’s also Dominik’s interesting description of “Blonde” in the interview:
“Blonde is a movie for all the unloved children of the world. It’s like Citizen Kane and Raging Bull had a baby daughter.”
This guy is real humble. He’s also predicting a Venice premiere:
“I guess it could have gone to Venice last year. It could have come out in the sort of fall crop last year, but…it took a while to cut it. All my films take a while to cut. The idea is it goes to Venice now, so what’s that, September?"
Last Fall, I had reported on the hefty post-production battles between Dominik and Netflix. Then, earlier this year, I gave an update that the feud had been settled with Netflix, and Dominik will finally be getting final cut on his Marilyn Monroe biopic.
Of course, this wasn’t without a tad of studio meddling. If you remember, there was a Dominik interview in early February where the writer-director confirmed that Netflix had Harvey-ed, so to speak, his film. The streaming giant had brought in acclaimed editor Jennifer Lame (Manchester By The Sea) “to curb the excesses of the movie.” Whatever that meant.
His reasoning is simple: Cregger sees himself first and foremost as a writer, and he has little interest in shaping stories around the predetermined “data points” that come with established IP.