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 Custom of the Country for Studiocanal and Charles Finch’s Rabbit’s Foot Films. The film is a feature adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel with Josie Rourke writing and directing. Production is currently under way. 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 and sheer force of will/unwavering ambition, Undine battles an entrenched elite, fearlessly courting controversy, until love and fortune align.
Sweeney, Charles Finch, Monumental Pictures’ 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) and launching worldwide sales at European Film Market in Berlin.
EVP of Global Production Ron Halpern, US Chief Creative Officer, Shana Eddy-Grouf and Head of Physical Production Sudie Smyth are overseeing for Studiocanal. The below the line crew includes director of photography Ruben Impens, costume designer Lauren Reyhani, production designer Laura Ellis Cricks, make up and hair Morag Ross and Nikki Gooley and casting director Nina Gold.