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Netflix & Meryl Streep Teaming Up for "The Corrections" Series Adapt

Netflix has nabbed the rights to produce a limited series based on Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, with Meryl Streep set to star.

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  • Netflix secures rights to Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed novel The Corrections for a limited series adaptation.
  • Meryl Streep is set to star as Enid Lambert, with Franzen adapting his own work for the screen.
  • Cord Jefferson, known for Watchmen and American Fiction, will direct the entire Netflix series.
  • Netflix bolsters its prestige TV lineup by acquiring this major adaptation from Paramount.

Netflix has acquired the rights to adapt Jonathan Franzen's 2001 novel The Corrections. The streamer has hired Cord Jefferson (Watchmen, American Fiction) to direct the entire series, with Franzen himself adapting his own novel. The biggest news is that Meryl Streep is attached to star in the limited series. Streep, Franzen, Jefferson, Mark Roybal (Task, Mare of Easttown), and Paul Lee (Task, The Summer I Turned Pretty) will all executive produce (with the news was first reported by Deadline).

Netflix Is Coming Close To Being The New HBO

Netflix has been coming out swinging in the prestige TV sector lately. If you haven't read The Corrections, here is the overview: "The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century–a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain on an affair with a married man–or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to. Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home." Streep has been tapped for the role of Enid.

Netflix To Produce Adaptation Of The Corrections With Meryl Steep
Meryl Streep walks the red carpet ahead of the "The Laundromat" screening during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 01, 2019, in Venice, Italy. Image via Shutterstock/Denis Makarenko

I mean, this is as good as it gets, right? Netflix is, as always, firing on all cylinders, and this just solidifies them as the studio everyone is dying to work with. They even got this show from Paramount, and they have every reason in the world not to work with them right now. They cannot be stopped.

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Jeremy KonradAbout Jeremy Konrad

Jeremy Konrad has written about collectibles and film for almost ten years. He has a deep and vast knowledge of both. He resides in Ohio with his family.
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