Source: Variety
Production company FilmEngine is re-opening the case of Marilyn Monroe’s death. Variety reports that Marilyn will be penned by John Ryan Jr., a filmmaker-producer who is Anthony Rhulen’s partner at FilmEngine.
The company 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, which was given to him 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.
The Marilyn project brings Grandison’s story to the big-screen for the first time. His involvement with Monroe’s case has been mentioned in several books. Her death is one of the great mysteries of Hollywood and American culture. A voluptuous vixen and beloved sex symbol with worldwide notoriety, Monroe’s tragic passing has been the subject of many works of non-fiction that delve into the possible cover-up and conspiracy surrounding her death and the star herself has been the subject of fans affections for years.
