Todd Haynes

You should read the book, it's putting the film in a new context for me.

love most of this guy's stuff, Poison excepted.

no wait I think I'm mixing that up with Safe.

Safe freaked me out.

Me too, but in a good way. Film I keep meaning to revisit.

i love superstar; poison to me falls more into the interesting-failure category, tho it's worth seeing.

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/winslet-game-for-mildred-pierce-.html

Kate Winslet is attached to "Mildred Pierce," a miniseries adaptation based on the James M. Cain novel that Todd Haynes is writing and directing. Sources said that HBO is the lead contender to get the mini, but payweb sources said no deal has been struck.

Cain's tale was famously turned into a 1945 film that won Joan Crawford an Oscar for the lead role of a bored housewife who gets into the restaurant business, an enterprise that leads to back-stabbing, romance and murder.

The involvement of Winslet--right after her Oscar-winning performance in "The Reader" and her work in "Revolutionary Road"--underscores how much paywebs like HBO have become prestige venues for films that might vanish as theatrical releases, a fact underscored by the success of "Grey Gardens," which garnered Emmy noms for Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.

Haynes directed "I'm Not There," "Safe" and "Far From Heaven."

intrigued!

whoa

i hope there''s lots of chickn and waffles in it!

(guessing it's going to be a contemporary update tho)

oh man, LOVE the Cain novel. finished it a couple of months ago. very excited about this.

contemporary update? why wd you hire the guy who did far From Heaven for that?

haha ya i guess

whoa! just watched the OG MP earlier this wk

this could be cool

Greenlit!

HBO is revisiting the Great Depression with "Mildred Pierce."
Pay cabler is going forward with a five-hour miniseries starring Kate Winslet as a proud, single mother struggling to earn her daughter's love during the depression in middle-class Los Angeles. Story is based on the novel by James M. Cain.

Mini has been speculated for months, but the deal just become official.

Joan Crawford won an Oscar for the lead role in the 1945 film adaptation of the novel. "Mildred Pierce" earned a total of six noms, including a pair of supporting actress nods for Eve Arden and Ann Blyth.

Todd Haynes will write the script along with Jon Raymond. Haynes will also direct and act as exec producer, along with Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, and John Wells. Ilene Landress ("The Sopranos") is producer and pic is in association with MGM.

Wells, who has a pact at Warner Bros. and saw his "Southland" cop drama picked up by TNT after it was dropped by NBC, recently unspooled his bigscreen pic "The Company Men" at the Sundance Film Festival.

Winslet is coming off a lead actress Oscar for her role in "The Reader." It was her first win after being nominated five times previously.

Actress last appeared on HBO in the pilot of Ricky Gervais starrer "Extras," playing a nun pining for an Oscar nom. Gervais teased her about the role during the 2009 Golden Globes.

No other thesps have been attached to the cast.

whoa.

is this the first miniseries that will be all directed by the same dude?

was just reading abt this, will b awesome

winslet? really?

yeah she kept her maiden name

No guesses as to what I hope they'll have as the theme song.

as much as i could see kate pulling this off, it would take a miracle to pull of a joan crawford in this role.

i'm sure haynes knows that, and this will probably be at right angles to the film.

haynes is nothing if not savvy about stuff like this, whatever you think of the results (i think he has a good track record).

pic is in association with MGM.

how much TV has MGM been producing lately? it's on the auction block right now, and is not in very good shape, at least in terms of theatrical.

xp i hope you're right! i do think he's a very sensible fit for the job.

This has potential.

I have never see a single Todd Haynes film. But I know at least two people who have slept with him!

that's ass-backwards. um, i mean...

I still prefer Carol Burnett's Mildred Fierce.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XP_UtPcjvp4/0.jpg

o. m. g. i have never seen that

ahahahahahahahaha watching this now, amazing

but that's NOT the Mildred Fierce sketch I saw! it was done later, a pretty close parody of the Crawford movie.

carol 4eva <3

Is it fucked up that I have always liked the name Veda because of this movie?

no way, it's a good name

yeah, it's a pretty name.

wow, this sounds good.

love most of this guy's stuff, Poison excepted.
I agree with this, although I still have not seen 'I'm Not There.'
'Safe' is one of my favourite movies.

up until the mention of 'I'm Not There' here I had been reading today's discussion thinking of Todd Phillips and being seriously confused.

that Mildred Fierce thing reminded me of this, which I hope everyone has seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGa4M0zmOLI

wow this sounds awesome

This has potential.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, February 11, 2010

Only if there are some anachronistic Dylan songs, amirite?

thx for reminding me to get Cain novel at liberry

turns 50 today:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2715

& looking great for that!

really looking forward to Mildred Pierce.

the beginning of this thread is so funny

ive never seen the velvet goldmine but ppl think it sucks right? i pretty much hate all of that glam rock carry-on so i dont think i could handle it if it was also rubbishy. i pretty much love all his other ones tho, i'm not there is so good, dying for mildred pierce. looks kindof straightforward for him in the trailers tho, i thought it was supposed to be 2010 tho, i mean if it hasnt been on already then obv. that partic. bird has flown.

velvet goldmine has a dedicated fanbase

of peverts

saw it again a couple years ago and really enjoyed it, tho i would've preferred a fake marc bolan biopic to a fake bowie biopic.