Several high-profile actors have signed on to perform voiceovers for the new Marilyn Monroe documentary, Fragments. Names attached to the project include Uma Thurman, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Giamatti, Ellen Burstyn, Viola Davis, Evan Rachel Wood, Lili Taylor, David Strathairn, F. Murray Abraham, Vanessa Shaw, Michelle Monaghan, Gretchen Mol and Zoe Saldana.
The actors will bring to life some of the people in Marilyn’s life. Giamatti will read as legendary director George Cukor, for instance, and F. Murray Abraham will read as Dr. Ralph Greenson, Marilyn’s psychiatrist.
Material for the movie has been gathered from a variety of sources, including Arthur Miller’s estate and Truman Capote’s estate.
Producer Stanley Buchthal, who co-edited a book of Marilyn’s journal-like notes, poems and letters of the same name, said of the project: “We thought about one big name to read as Marilyn but wanted to celebrate her in a different way. The poems and letters opened up a very different Marilyn Monroe to the one we have seen before. She was very well read, for example, and far from the frivolous blonde she was sometimes made out to be. That is what was exciting to me. Not enough people have taken her seriously as a serious person. This film uncovers how insightful, poetic and interesting she was.”
The documentary is currently in production and scheduled for release on August 5, 2012, which is the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death.
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