Infused with new financing, production company FilmEngine is re-opening the investigation into Marilyn Monroe’s death.
FilmEngine has optioned the life rights of Lionel Grandison, a deputy Los Angeles coroner who claims he was forced to falsify Monroe’s death certificate to say it was a suicide rather than murder. Grandison also contends that he read Monroe’s diary.
“Marilyn” will be penned by John Ryan Jr., a filmmaker-producer who is Anthony Rhulen’s partner at FilmEngine.
Rhulen launched FilmEngine at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 with William Shively and A.J. Dix. The latter two have since left and recently formed Tower Hill Entertainment.
The “Marilyn” project brings Grandison’s story to the bigscreen for the first time. His involvement with Monroe’s case has been mentioned in several books.
“After being forced to sign a falsified death certificate, he was threatened for years about what he knew. The threats only stopped recently,” Rhulen said.
Grandison said he was given Monroe’s diary in order to help find her next of kin. He was in possession of the diary for several days. Grandison is still alive, but the diary could not be found.
Rhulen, principal and CEO of FilmEngine, has recapitalized the company and is relaunching Film-Engine as a development, production and management entity.
“Concurrently, we’re raising production funds for studio co-finance deals, as well as equity-backed independent projects,” Rhulen said.
Rhulen said the new management division, led by Jake Wagner, will help build a talent base for Film Engine projects. Client roster already includes Todd Farmer (“My Bloody Valentine,” “Drive Angry”), W. Peter Iliff (“Point Break,” “Patriot Games”) and Evan Daugherty.
Ryan joined FilmEngine in 2008 and is a partner and chief operating officer. He’s also creative director and will write and produce for FilmEngine.
FilmEngine produced Johnny Depp starred “The Rum Diary,” based on Hunter S. Thompson’s novel. Past credits include “The Butterfly Effect” franchise and “Lucky Number Slevin.”
“The main thing about FilmEngine is that we are artist-friendly. We also deliver,” Rhulen said. “We want to tell unique stories.”
Paradigm’s indie division reps FilmEngine and has helped the production company in its recapitalization efforts.
Source: variety.com
Wow, this is really interesting, i can't wait to see the finished product.
Marilyn was not murdered!!! It was an accidental overdose and she was being careless and not paying attention to what she was doing. Her death wasn't hard on her and she misses nothing about being alive.
(And she is still on the other side)
She wont reincarnate until 2067-2068 and she will be female once again.
I have a personal friend who is a very well known psychic and medium having her own radio show and being on national TV on a few programs. She did a trade reading with my partner who is also psychic. (Yes psychic people do that its like their own validation)
(Just a little validation of my own) I wanted to know about my past life and asked my partner to look into it for me to see who I was or how I died. He told me in my past life I was a medic in WWII and I died at the age of 18.
Well one of my questions to our psychic friend was about my past life and she told me the exact same thing!! I died in WWII and I was a medic and I died very young in the early 1940's just barely an adult. And she said that part of the reason I was so into Marilyn was that I actually knew Marilyn(Norma Jeane) as a child when we were both kids. I was a couple years older then she was but we weren't really friends, but we knew of each other.
I asked Marilyn if she could get a tattoo what would she get and where and she replied
"I would never do that, A "real women" would never do that" (She still thinks very much like she would as if she were still in her own time.) She thinks that women today don't act like real women anymore and that they spend to much time trying to be equal to men. Most of what I was told was quoted from Marilyn herself. There is more but I don't want to tell everything I know. And one thing I thought that was very funny was that Marilyn still refers to herself in the 3rd person just as she did in life. No one has to believe me but I know in my heart and spiritual being that what I know is true, and I will continue to believe that until the day I die cause It's from a trusted family friend.
so she died? over pill's/drugs, overdose.. how sad! i've always loved marilyn and always will :))
R.I.P !