Sofia Coppola Adapting Novel CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY into Series for Apple
Director Sofia Coppola, known for The Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation, has signed on to adapt the Edith Wharton novel The Custom of the Country into a limited series for Apple. Coppola will write and direct the 1913 story, which follows “Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society.”
Coppola is a huge fan of the novel and told Variety, “Undine Spragg is my favorite literary anti-heroine and I’m excited to bring her to the screen for the first time.”
The Custom of the Country is “a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York’s high society from the nouveau riche provides a provocative commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin. One of Wharton’s most acclaimed works, The Custom of the Country is a stunning indictment of materialism and misplaced values that is as powerful today for its astute observations about greed and power as when it was written nearly a century ago.”
Coppola recently directed a film that is set to premiere on Apple later this year called On the Rocks, which stars Bill Murray and Rashida Jones, and “follows a young mother who reconnects with her larger than life playboy father on an adventure through New York.”
Does The Custom of the Country sound like a series you might be into?
