{"id":811852,"date":"2026-10-23T23:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811852\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:20:12","slug":"blanchett-haynes-plan-the-maids-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811852\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanchett, Haynes Plan &#8220;The Maids&#8221; Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blanchett-haynes-plan-the-maids-film.jpg\" data-caption=\"Focus Features\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/blanchett-haynes-plan-the-maids-film.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"blanchett-haynes-plan-the-maids-film\"\/><\/a>Focus Features<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarol,\u201d \u201cMay December\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Not There\u201d filmmaker Todd Haynes has revealed his next project.<\/p>\n<p>Haynes recently filmed \u201cDe Noche,\u201d the queer romantic drama starring Pedro Pascal and Danny Ramirez that was originally slated to star Joaquin Phoenix who famously dropped out at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>The film, a love story between two men set in the 1930s and filmed primarily in Mexico City, is expected to be a serious awards contender next year.  Haynes though is already lining up what\u2019s next for him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/culture\/todd-haynes-mon-prochain-film-sera-une-adaptation-des-bonnes-de-jean-genet-ZIF3XWFZRFDW5OEK6ZLU2YBE7Q\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Point<\/a> magazine, Haynes says the film will be an adaptation of Jean Genet\u2019s 1947 play \u201cLes Bonnes\u201d (The Maids) and suggests that Cate Blanchett could star in the movie:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll let you in on something: my next film \u2013 after the one I\u2019m currently finishing, De Noche \u2013 will be an adaptation of The Maids. I have a very particular approach to the story; I obviously can\u2019t say anything, but I\u2019ve never seen this approach anywhere else\u2026I think Cate Blanchett, who performed the play on stage with Isabelle Huppert, will be in my film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haynes\u2019s most recent film was \u201cMay December,\u201d which scored an Oscar nomination for its script and made the AFI Top 10 of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Focus Features \u201cCarol,\u201d \u201cMay December\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m Not There\u201d filmmaker Todd Haynes has revealed his next project. Haynes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}