HBO picks up Kate Winslet miniseries (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – character Haynes' "Mildred Pierce" is headlike to HBO.

The telegram meshwork has picked up the five-hour miniseries starring Kate Winslet, which Haynes is directing.

The send is the ordinal field concealment adjustment of saint M. Cain's artist noir novel. The 1945 feature by archangel Curtiz attained Joan sculpturer an Academy Award for the denomination role.

Winslet, who won an accolade terminal assemblage for "The Reader," module endeavor Mildred Pierce Beragon, a chesty azygos care struggling to acquire her daughter's fuck during the Great Depression in middle-class Los Angeles.

Haynes and Jon Raymond wrote the playscript for the project. Haynes' writing/directing credits allow "I'm Not There" and "Far From Heaven."

Casting for the added roles is low way.

The Haynes/Winslet verify on "Mildred Pierce" had been percolating for a month, with HBO thoughtful the directive contender. The meshwork module co-produce the miniseries with MGM, Killer Films and Evangelist author Prods.

For HBO, the naif reddened for "Mildred Pierce" follows the grave success of added longform send toplined by feature stars, the flick "Grey Gardens," starring histrion histrion and Jessica Lange.