London, Feb. 18 -- English actor Leo Woodall has signed on to appear opposite American actress Sydney Sweeney in a new big-screen adaptation of The Custom of the Country, the classic novel by Edith Wharton.
The project is being mounted by Studiocanal and Charles Finch's Rabbit's Foot Films, with director Josie Rourke penning the screenplay based on Wharton's incisive work.
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.
Details regarding Woodall's role have not yet been r...