An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novella Carol (also known as The Price of Salt) is to star Mia Wasikowska and Cate Blanchett. The director will be John Crowley, best known for the Irish ensemble film Intermission and, on television, Boy A starring Andrew Garfield. The adaptation is by playwright Phyllis Nagy and will be produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley from Number 9 Films.

Carol follows the burgeoning relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York. One, a girl in her twenties (Wasikowska) working in a department store who dreams of a more fulfilling life, while the other (Blanchett) is a wife desperate to escape a loveless marriage but terrified of losing her daughter. Blanchett’s previous appearance in a Highsmith adaptation was Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr Ripley. Wasikowska made her mark playing the daughter of two women in The Kids Are All Right.