Although he kept busy on HBO’s Mildred Pierce, it’s been six long years since we’ve got a theatrical feature from Todd Haynes, so it came with welcome news this past summer when we learned what he’ll be taking on next. Thanks to The Weinstein Company, who will produce and distribute the film, Carol will kick off production this fall, but we have a bit of a switch-up in the cast.
With Cate Blanchett set to star in the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith‘s novel, The Price of Salt, Mia Wasikowska is now out and Rooney Mara has come to the rescue, according to a press release. There’s no word why Wasikowska exited, but she may be busy with Sophie Barthes‘ Madame Bovary. The project tracks a lesbian romance concerning two 1950s New York women, one a department store worker (Mara) left unsatisfied with her line of work, and an older, married woman (Blanchett) whose relationship is dead. With Phyllis Nagy is scripting, read a synopsis from Amazon below.
“Therese first glimpses Carol in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. Carol is choosing a present for her daughter; she looks preoccupied, exuding an aura of elegance as perfect as a secret. Standing there at the counter, Therese suddenly feels wholly innocent – wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese was nineteen, and loved by a young man she cared about, but could not desire. Carol was a sophisticated married woman. Now Therese seemed to have no other purpose to her life other than their meeting First published under a pseudonym in 1952, Carol is a love story told with compelling wit and eroticism, and consummate tenderness.”
Is Mara a worthy replacement?