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EXCLUSIVE: Leo Woodall is set to co-star opposite Sydney Sweeney in a movie adaptation of Edith Wharton’s classic novel Custom of the Country for Studiocanal and Charles Finch’s Rabbit’s Foot Films. Josie Rourke will direct after adapting the script from Wharton’s novel.
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.
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Nina Gold is the casting director and is in the process of building the ensemble around Sweeney. EVP Global Production Ron Halpern, U.S. Chief Creative Officer Shana Eddy-Grouf and VP Development and Production Isobel Carter are overseeing for Studiocanal.
Best known for his roles in season two of The White Lotus and Bridget Jones: Mad About A Boy, Woodall most recently earned strong reviews for his supporting role in James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg alongside Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, and John Slattery. Upcoming, he will star alongside Rachel Weisz in the Netflix limited series Vladimir which bows on March 6, and he’ll lead the Black Bear Pictures film Tuner, which comes out this spring, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Havana Rose Liu.
He is repped by B-Side Management, WME, Anonymous Content and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
