Cate Blanchett/Rooney Mara '50s-era Lesbian Film 'Carol' FINALLY Hits Theaters Next Year

Picture this...  Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, and Carrie Brownstein as lesbians in the 1950s! This is not your favorite dream from last night. It’s seriously the cast ofCarol, the Todd Haynes helmed adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s benchmark lesbian novel The Price of Salt. And now, Haynes has teased that the film will finally be released in the fall of 2015, according to AfterEllen.

Blanchett plays the titular role of the socialite Carol (the original name of the book that Highsmith wrote under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), who meets and falls for a younger woman, a department store clerk and artist, played by Mara. Paulson and Brownstein costar as a couple of the other women in Carol’s life.

Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt during the heyday of lesbian pulp novels, but her tale, which is at times heartbreaking, varied greatly from the even bleaker outlook of so many pulp novels, offering up a glimmer of hope with its “happy ending." She dared to leave the ending open to the possibility that the women could end up staying together. 

This project has made our lesbians heads explode repeatedly. Out filmmaker Haynes' Far From Heaven -- a remake of the '50s melodrama All That Heaven Allows – that starred Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid, is possibly one of the greatest gay-themed films of the new millennium. And, New Queer Cinema luminary Christine Vachon is one of the film's producers. 

Taking a cue from AE, here’s a fan video of stills from the film’s shoot. We're planning on camping out in front of the theater like

Hunger Games fangirls once the release date draws closer.