Earlier this year, The Weinstein Company announced the acquisition of Carol, in which Mia Wasikowska would star opposite Cate Blanchett.
Well Deadline is now reporting that actress Rooney Mara has replaced Wasikowska to star as a 1950s department store personality who has become despondent in her hopes for a better life. She may find that when she strikes up a surprising relationship with a housewife (Blanchett) in a sham marriage that only maintains because she fears losing her daughter in a divorce.
The project is based on a novella by Patricia Highsmith and is to be directed by Todd Haynes of Far From Heaven.
Mara continues to rise in attention, as Sony Pictures has reportedly hired a new writer to adapt The Girl Who Played With Fire, the second installment of The Millennium Trilogy, noticeably without director David Fincher’s involvement. Where this announcement will leave that project is unknown.