Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections is getting a second shot at a TV adaptation — with Meryl Streep attached to star.
CBS Studios is in the early stages of development a drama based on the acclaimed 2001 novel, with Franzen adapting his own work and executive producing. The project doesn’t have a streaming or network outlet attached.
CBS Studios declined comment.
The CBS Studios project is the second attempt at a TV adaptation of The Corrections. HBO shot a pilot for a series adaptation in 2012 that starred Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest but opted not to take it to series.
The rights to Franzen’s novel have been at Paramount since producer Scott Rudin optioned the book in the early 2000s. The current project had been housed at Paramount Television Studios but moved to CBS Studios last month when Paramount Global shut down PTVS.
A National Book Award winner in 2001, The Corrections centers on a Midwestern family whose patriarch is in failing health gathering for Christmas and tracks the lives of the parents and their three adult children over several decades. Streep would play the family’s mother, who is fixated on the idea of a final celebration before her husband’s dementia worsens.
Streep currently appears in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. The Oscar and Emmy winner’s recent work also includes season two of HBO’s Big Little Lies and feature films Don’t Look Up, Let Them All Talk and the 2019 Little Women. She is repped by CAA and Gendler Kelly.
Puck first reported the news.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
