A look through time: Dakota Johnson and Ellen Bernstein try on the image of Marilyn Monroe in a new project (3 photos)

While Hollywood directors compete to create standard biopics, Maggie Gyllenhaal has decided to play a trump card and present audiences with an alternative story about the iconic blonde. The first footage of a seventeen-minute short film has already appeared online, featuring two different actresses portraying the legendary Marilyn Monroe in her youth and in old age. It seems the director has decided to answer the age-old question of how the film star's life might have turned out had fate granted her a long old age instead of a tragic ending. One can only imagine how poignant this cinematic journey through time and the mirrors of aging will be.