EXCLUSIVE: Josh Finan, Louis Garrel, Matthew Goode, Rose Leslie, Martha Plimpton, Irene Jacob, Hugh Dancy, Ian Hart, James McArdle, Rosie Sheehy, Louisa Harland, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Dominic West and Miranda Richardson are joining Sydney Sweeney in The The Custom of the Country for Studiocanal and Charles Finch’s Rabbit’s Foot Films.
The film, a feature adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, is written and being directed by Josie Rourke. Production is currently underway. Leo Woodall is also on board to star.
Sweeney plays Undine Spragg, a fiercely ambitious woman from the Midwest who strives for the social heights of turn-of-the-century New York. Armed with beauty, daring, hustle, sheer force of will and unwavering ambition, Undine battles an entrenched elite, fearlessly courting controversy, until love and fortune align.
Sweeney, LD Entertainment, Finch, Monumental Pictures’ Alice Owen and Studiocanal will produce. Studiocanal will fully finance, releasing theatrically in all its territories (the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Poland and Benelux) after handling worldwide sales at last month’s European Film Market in Berlin. LD Entertainment has already pre-bought North America rights.
Studiocanal’s EVP Global Production Ron Halpern, US Chief Creative Officer Shana Eddy-Grouf and Head of Physical Production Sudie Smyth are overseeing.
The below-the-line crew includes director of photography Ruben Impens, costume designer Lauren Reyhani, production designer Laura Ellis Cricks, make-up and hairstylists Morgan Ross and Nikki Gooley and casting director Nina Gold.