MOVIE | The Custom of the Country starts production – STUDIOCANAL, LD Entertainment, Rabbit’s Foot Films, and Monumental Pictures announce today that cameras are rolling on THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY starring Sydney Sweeney and Leo Woodall.
Joining the cast – and announced today – are Josh Finan (WAITING FOR THE OUT, SAY NOTHING) Louis Garrel (DOG 51, LITTLE WOMEN), Matthew Goode (THE IMITATION GAME, DOWNTON ABBEY), Rose Leslie (VIGIL, MISS AUSTEN), Martha Plimpton (TASK, MASS), Irene Jacob (THE AFFAIR, INTRACABLES), Hugh Dancy (HANNIBAL, HYSTERIA), Ian Hart (MR BATES vs. THE POST OFFICE, THE LAST KINGDOM), James McArdle (MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, PLAYING NICE), Rosie Sheehy (PILLION, CHERNOBYL), Louisa Harland (HAMNET, THE WALSH SISTERS), Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́ (CHEVALIER, DREAMERS), Dominic West (THE WIRE, THE AFFAIR) & Miranda Richardson (THE YELLOW TIE, RAMS).
Acclaimed British theatre and film director Josie Rourke (MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS) directs and adapted the script from Wharton’s classic novel, often dubbed her greatest work.
HODs include César Nominee DP Ruben Impens, Costume Designer BAFTA Nominee Lauren Reyhani, Production Designer BIFA Nominee Laura Ellis Cricks, Make Up BAFTA winner Morag Ross, Hair Academy Award Nominee Nikki Gooley and Casting Director BAFTA Nominee Nina Gold.
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, hustle and sheer force of will, Undine battles an entrenched elite, fearlessly courting controversy, until love and fortune align.
STUDIOCANAL, Charles Finch’s Rabbit’s Foot Films (PRISCILLA, MARIANNE AND LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE), Sydney Sweeney, Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell of LD Entertainment (JACKIE, ANTHROPOID, ELSINORE), and Alison Owen of Monumental Pictures (JANE EYRE, SAVING MR BANKS, ME BEFORE YOU, BACK TO BLACK), will produce. STUDIOCANAL will fully finance, releasing theatrically in all its territories and with LD pre-buying North America, having launched worldwide sales at EFM.
EVP of Global Production Ron Halpern, US Chief Creative Officer, Shana Eddy-Grouf and Head of Physical Production Sudie Smyth are overseeing for STUDIOCANAL.
Josie Rourke’s debut feature MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie for Focus Features, was nominated for BAFTA, OSCAR and SAG Awards.
Rourke ran the Donmar Warehouse from 2012-2019–the first female theatre director to be appointed artistic director of a major London theatre. Acclaimed productions during her tenure included Sweet Charity with Anne Marie Duff, Measure for Measure, with Jack Lowden and Hayley Atwell; Saint Joan with Gemma Arterton; Coriolanus with Tom Hiddleston and Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Janet McTeer and Dominic West, along with new plays by Nick Payne and James Graham, and City Of Angels which won the Olivier Award.
Theatre productions in New York include Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway, starring Liev Schreiber and Janet McTeer, and Privacy at The Public starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Recent productions include smash hit Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons in the West End, Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre and the acclaimed Porn Play at the Royal Court.
Charles Finch was executive producer on the Grierson Award winning Battle of Haditha. Charles is the CEO of Finch and Partners, Founder and Editor of A Rabbit’s Foot magazine and a leading international businessman with a 30-year career in making movies and developing talent.
Alison Owen is an Emmy and BAFTA winning and Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film and television producer, and co-founded Monumental Pictures in 2015, with producing partner Debra Hayward.
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MOVIE | The Custom of the Country starts production
