LOS ANGELES: My Week with Marilyn, starring Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams as 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe, will see its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in October, organizers said.
Directed by Simon Curtis, the film is based on a week that British writer Colin Clark worked as an assistant with Monroe while she was filming The Prince and the Showgirl in the United Kingdom in the early summer of 1956.
That film featured Monroe working opposite Sir Laurence Oliver and was shot when Monroe was on a honeymoon with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller.
When he left England, Clark was assigned to introduce Monroe to British life. My Week with Marilyn is based on a diary Clark kept, excerpts of which were published in two books in 1995 and 2000. (PTI)