#CAVE STORY BUSHLANDS MOVIE#
Two decades on from Lynch's film and Blonde's publication, Dominik's much-anticipated movie has finally materialised, courtesy of Netflix – though with the younger and more sultry Cuban starlet Ana de Armas ( No Time to Die Knives Out) having slipped into the juicy lead role. Watts's Mulholland Drive character puts a hit out on the more successful actress who spurned her love in Blonde, it's Norma Jeane who falls victim to Marilyn, her own prodigious creation. Watts had already, famously, played the role of dissociative blonde chewed up by the Hollywood machine in Mulholland Drive – the second of David Lynch's three möbius strip-shaped Hollywood chronicles (after Lost Highway, and before Inland Empire), released in 2001, not long after Oates's book. Monroe was found lying face down on her bed beside an empty bottle of prescription drugs she had been taking for anxiety, the LA Times reported in 1962. Her body was found in bed at her recently purchased Brentwood, Los Angeles home in the small hours of August 5, 1962, phone in hand and a riot of pill bottles crowding the night-stand. The growing chasm between these two selves – public-facing and private – could only resolve in tragedy whether by an intentional or accidental act of self-destruction, Monroe was dead at 36. Back in 2010, it was announced that Naomi Watts would star as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's sprawling, fictionalised biography of the same name, to be written and directed by Australian Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford This Much I Know to Be True).įolding in the icon's family history of mental illness and a childhood marred by neglect and abuse, Oates constructed her protagonist as a woman divided: the sunny, sexed-up persona Marilyn Monroe, screen goddess, versus Norma Jeane Mortensen (aka Norma Jeane Baker), the shy, stuttering girl next door, fatherless and all but abandoned by a mother who would spend most of her daughter's life in a psychiatric institution.
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