Casey Affleck And Andrew Dominik Shooting New Crime Picture In January; Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Film Delayed?
Earlier this week a single line in aNew York Timespiece got my hopes up, by saying thatCasey Affleckwould soon work again with directorAndrew Dominik. That would be a re-teaming of two of the primaries fromThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. (Affleck played Ford, Brad Pitt played James; hopefully this is a superfluous recap.) Now, in a different interview, Affleck has seemingly confirmed the plan to re-team.
This raises two questions. One: what’s the new movie? And two, what does this mean forBlonde, theMarilyn Monroebiopic Dominik had planned to shoot in January?
We’d originally suspected that Casey Affleck would be cast inBlonde, but during an interview withThe Kevin and Josh Movie Showon Washington DC’s CBS Radio, Affleck said of the new project with Dominik,
I don’t know if I’m allowed to talk about it, but it’s a Boston-based crime… It’s based on a novel set in Boston, but it’s not going to be set in Boston, unfortunately.
That leads to supposition number two: that Affleck might be talking about the new version ofTell No One, which Dominik washired to rewriteback in August. But while the source novel byHarlan Cobenis a crime novel of sorts, it isn’t based in Boston. So (probably) scratch that.
Given that there weretwo Monroe biopics in the works, the other beingMy Week With Marilyn, to be directed by Simon Curtis, I’m not surprised that a game of chicken broke out. I’m just sorry that Dominik’s film, which was to starNaomi Wattsas Monroe, is the one that seemingly blinked first.
The other Monroe film has more casting firmly in place, but afterJesse JamesandChopper, I thought Dominik was the ideal man to do a new screen take on Monroe’s life and fame. Hoping that this is just a delay, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised ifBlondesimply didn’t happen.
So: what the hell is Dominik going to make, and what role will Casey Affleck have?Someone knows…
