Meryl Streep To Headline Series Adaptation Of ‘The Corrections’

Peter White

Fri, September 27, 2024 at 4:45 PM UTC

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Meryl Streep is set to star in a TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's novel "The Corrections" chronicling a Midwestern family.
The project is being produced by CBS Studios in collaboration with wiip, with Franzen, Mark Roybal, and Nicole Clemens serving as executive producers.
This is not the first attempt to bring "The Corrections" to the small screen, as HBO previously ordered a pilot in 2011 that ultimately did not move forward.

The Corrections could finally make it to the small screen — with Meryl Streep attached to headline.

Deadline has confirmed that Streep is set to star in the project from CBS Studios. Author Jonathan Franzen is adapting the 2001 novel chronicling a Midwestern couple and their adult children.

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CBS Studios, which is producing with wiip, will take out the project soon. Franzen, wiip’s Mark Roybal and Nicole Clemens, formerly of Paramount TV Studios), will exec produce.

There’s been a previous attempt to bring the book to the small screen. In 2011, HBO ordered a pilot from Noah Baumbach . Scott Rudin , who had been developing the project for a decade, originally as a feature, was set to executive produce with Baumbach and Franzen. The pilot starred Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans and Greta Gerwig.

The following year, however, HBO declined to move forward. Puck first reported the news.

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