It’s official folks, Evan Rachel Wood and Guy Pearce are boarding Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce miniseries, Production Weekly reports that they’ll be filming for a seven-eight week shoot out of Killer Films’ backyard of New York, between April 12th to June 1st. Kate Winslet is Mildred, and I believe that Wood will play the youngest daughter Kay, while a dapper Pearce could essentially play the wealthy Monty. This leaves, Bert Pierce, Mildred’s husband, their eldest daughter Vera, there is word that Chloë Sevigny might take that role – she has worked on other Killer Films projects (Kids, Boys Don’t Cry, Party Monster) and finally, there is one last part in Wally Fay – Bert’s former business partner – perhaps a David Strathairn type might fit the part.
The HBO miniseries is co-written by Haynes and Jon Raymond (Kelly Reichardt’s scribe on her first two films), and is not a remake of the 1945 film, but an adaptation of James M. Cain’s classic noir novel, which 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.
