MUMBAI: Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik has signed Brad Pitt to produce his long-delayed biopic on Marilyn Monroe.

Discussions about the project had been going on since 2010 but recently Pitt announced that his production company, Plan B, would finance the film with Dominik at the helm. We‘re going to get this one done," quoted the 48 year old Dominik.

Titled Blonde, the film started rolling in January 2011, with Australian actress Naomi Watts in the lead. Later it was stalled.

Earlier, Pitt had worked with Dominik in The Assassination of Jesse James directed by the Coward Robert Ford and the gangster thriller Killing Them Softly that was pitted in the Competition Section for the Palme d‘Or at this year‘s Cannes Film Festival.