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Pedro Almodóvar Will No Longer Direct ‘ A Manual for Cleaning Women’
With Cate Blanchett to star and produce Almodovar spent years developing the adaptation expected to be his long-awaited English-language debut
Christian Zilko Sep 12, 2022 7:44 pm Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk Pedro Almodóvar Getty Images Fans of Pedro Almodóvar will have to keep waiting for his first English-language feature. The Oscar winner was set to switch languages when he directed “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s short-story collection starring Cate Blanchett. But Almodóvar, who is currently finishing a new Western short starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, has exited the project. Deadline broke the news. Blanchett’s Dirty Films is still attached to produce the independent project with New Republic Pictures. IndieWire placed a call to Almodóvar’s representative, which was not returned at press time. Almodovar has been talking about this project for years, first discussing it with IndieWire in 2019 as "five short tales by one American writer" that take place in Texas, Oakland, and Mexico, with a mixture of English and Spanish. (In his 2019 semi-autobiographical drama “Pain and Glory,” the film’s main character is seen reading the book.)Related
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