Meryl Streep to star in Netflix's 'The Corrections' series

A TV adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s seminal 2001 novel, “The Corrections,” has yet recovered a location astatine Netflix.

The streaming work connected Thursday announced its acquisition of the Paramount Television Studios project, which has been successful improvement since 2024 (and shopped astir for overmuch longer). Netflix ordered “The Corrections” consecutive to series, meaning the play volition skip the aviator signifier and apt instrumentality a accelerated way to release.

Three-time Academy Award victor Meryl Streep volition prima successful the constricted series, directed by Cord Jefferson (“American Fiction”) and written by Franzen.

Netflix successful a connection described “The Corrections” arsenic “a sharply comic representation of a Midwestern household whose 3 unmoored big siblings desperately defy their mother’s privation for 1 past Christmas unneurotic — each undone by the delusional ambitions that were expected to prevention them from becoming their parents.”

“Let’s battalion our bags, drawback immoderate tinsel and emotionally hole for a hearty serving of household dysfunction,” the streamer said.

“The Corrections” constricted bid comes 25 years aft Franzen published his National Book Award-winning novel, which helium famously blindfolded himself to finish. Previous attempted adaptations, including an HBO accumulation helmed by Noah Baumbach and starring Ewan McGregor and Greta Gerwig (among a slew of different stars), were reportedly squashed owed to difficulties translating the book’s communicative benignant connected screen.

A merchandise day has yet to beryllium announced.

Recently, Streep lent her dependable to blockbusters “Hoppers” and “Project Hail Mary.” She besides stars successful the upcoming sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada,” hitting theaters May 1.

Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci volition besides reprise their roles for the highly anticipated movie, whose predecessor past twelvemonth yet received a cosign from Anna Wintour.