goddess the secret life of marilyn monroe netflix

“It is startling, brilliant, very disturbing and perhaps most surprisingly an utterly feminist interpretation,” she tweeted on August 11. Happily, Oates’s verdict on the rough-cut is entirely positive. Producing the film? None other than Brad Pitt. Ana de Armas will step into the role of Norma Jeane, while Bobby Cannavale will appear as New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, her husband in the mid-’50s, and Adrien Brody will star as her third and final partner, playwright Arthur Miller. The response to the documentary bodes well for Andrew Dominik’s forthcoming Monroe biopic, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde, which will also premiere on Netflix later this year after a series of delays.

The biggest revelation to come out of the 101-minute documentary? The fact that Monroe passed away en route to the hospital rather than being found dead in her Brentwood home, giving credence to various theories that there’s more to Monroe’s purported drug overdose than meets the eye.

Released on April 27, Emma Cooper’s film revisits Pulitzer Prize finalist Anthony Summers’s three years of detailed research into the circumstances surrounding Monroe’s death-offering up soundbites from hundreds of recordings he made with everyone from Billy Wilder to Monroe’s psychiatrist Ralph Greenson. There’s apparently no limit to our collective fascination with Norma Jeane, as evidenced by the reaction to Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes.

Goddess the secret life of marilyn monroe netflix