Can you handle five hours of Kate Winslet?
Better yet, can you handle five hours of former Heavenly Creature Winslet in 1920s garb? We’re talking corsets and possible Flapper attire, here, ladies.
No, you’re not dreaming. HBO is making what for many is only a great daydream into a reality. According to The Hollywood Reporter, HBO has picked up the rights to Mildred Pierce, a five-hour miniseries from openly gay writer-director Todd Haynes, who directed Far From Heaven, a thoughtful re-imagining of Douglas Sirk's fifties' classic All that Heaven Allows.
Mildred Pierce, an adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, centers on Mildred Pierce Beragon (Winslet), a proud single mother struggling to earn her daughter’s love during the Great Depression in middle-class Los Angeles.
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The 1941 novel was previously translated to the big screen in 1945 in a vehicle that starred Joan Crawford in the title role and Ann Blyth and Jo Ann Marlowe as her daughters. Crawford won a best actress Oscar that year for her portrayal of the single mother in the noir thriller.
Aside from Winslet’s casting, no other roles have been filled.
But with HBO hot off Emmy and Golden Globe success for its Grey Gardens starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange, it wouldn’t be a stretch to see a big-name film actress land on the pay cabler.
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