Cate Blanchett Looking to Adapt Cancer Vixen Cate Blanchett is apparently hoping to adapt Marisa Acocella Marchetto's frank and funny memoir Cancer Vixen for the big screen. "It's about a cartoonist's look at her contracting cancer," Blanchett observed of the book, which she acquired the rights to through her Working Title Films production company shortly after its release. "And the process of getting cancer."