On the heels of yesterday's word that Rooney Mara is eyeing a role in Spike Jonze's next film comes, via Variety, confirmation that Mara is also attached to play the lead in Brooklyn, an adaptation of the Colm Tóibín, officially described as follows:
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.
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