There’s A New Marilyn Monroe Movie And Nobody Told Lindsay Lohan

Poor Lindsay. Last year, Michelle Williams totally stole the role she was born for in My Week with Marilyn, and now there’s another Marilyn movie, Blonde, in the works, but did Lindsay get the part? No, no, Naomi Watts had to steal that away from her too. The injustice of it all.

But really, this new Marilyn movie sounds really good:

As to the scope of “Blonde,” don’t expect a “Lincoln”-like sliver of the troubled star’s life. “It’s about her whole life,” Andrew Dominik said, definitively. “It starts when she’s seven and it ends when she dies.” Dominik acknowledged that it will be based on the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominated novel by Joyce Carol Oates, then clarified his approach to the material. “It’s sort of a Polanski descent-into-madness-type movie,” Dominik explained. “It’s about this orphan girl who gets lost in the woods.”

Those comments echo his earlier description of the movie as an “emotional nightmare fairy tale,” and Dominik sounds genuinely excited about the project. “I love it,” he said. “It’s my dream project and I’ve been working on it for years and years and years.” Given his ability to make real-world characters into genuinely mythological figures, as he did in both ‘Jesse James’ and his first film, the hard-nosed Australian drama “Chopper” (that made a star out of some guy named Eric Bana), it seems like the perfect subject matter for the filmmaker.

When we asked Dominik if he was going to push, visually, into the realm of what-is-reality-what-is-fantasy, Dominik said yes. “It’s very pseudo-Freudian,” he said. “The lines between fantasy and reality become very blurred in the story.” About when the film will actually shoot, Dominik optimistically says, “I’d like to do it next year.” He says he hasn’t hired a cinematographer yet, but that Naomi Watts — who was attached early on, but over the summer seemed like she might have to bow out — is still on board, although, as he said, “Anything can happen.”

Right? That sounds good, doesn’t it? And I mean, if Lindsay could do the Marilyn Monroe Playboy shoot, then she could definitely do this movie. What does Naomi Watts have that Lindsay doesn’t? Hasn’t Lindsay proven herself yet?