Not exactly. But look at these pictures of Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara on the set of Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley. Don’t they remind you of Carol (2015)? The period costumes, the snow and winter setting, Cate’s gorgeous blond wig?
The internet lost its mind for a couple of hours...
Everyone saw the connection to Carol and searched for parallels. This looks like savvy marketing from the team behind Nightmare Alley. The film started shooting recently in Toronto and these photos mark the first images anyone has seen. Way to capitalize on Carol’s popularity and its cachet. Especially since the story of Nightmare Alley doesn’t even hinge on the characters played by Blanchett and Mara. The lead is Bradley Cooper. Here’s the official synopsis which Searchlight released with the announcement that shooting has started:
In NIGHTMARE ALLEY, an ambitious young carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is.
The film is based on the William Gresham novel of the same name and co-written by del Toro and Kim Morgan. The starry cast also includes Toni Colette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, and David Strathairn.The novel has previously been adapted in 1947 with Tyronne Power and Joan Blondell.
Way to get us obsessed with these images, GDT. What storyline would you write for a Carol sequel?